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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def search(self, id_list: Iterable, negated_classes: Iterable, limit: Optional[int], method: Optional) -> List[SimResult]: """ Given an input list of classes, searches for similar lists of classes and provides a ranked list of matches """

        pass