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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 request(self, method, url, headers=None, raise_exception=True, **kwargs):
 """Main method for routing HTTP requests to the configured Vault base_uri. :param method: HTTP method to use with the request. E.g., GET, POST, etc. :type method: str :param url: Partial URL path to send the request to. This will be joined to the end of the instance's base_uri attribute. :type url: str | unicode :param headers: Additional headers to include with the request. :type headers: dict :param raise_exception: If True, raise an exception via utils.raise_for_error(). Set this parameter to False to bypass this functionality. :type raise_exception: bool :param kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to include in the requests call. :type kwargs: dict :return: The response of the request. :rtype: requests.Response """

        if '//' in url:
            # Vault CLI treats a double forward slash ('//') as a single forward slash for a given path.
            # To avoid issues with the requests module's redirection logic, we perform the same translation here.
            logger.warning('Replacing double-slashes ("//") in path with single slash ("/") to avoid Vault redirect response.')
            url = url.replace('//', '/')

        url = self.urljoin(self.base_uri, url)

        if not headers:
            headers = {}

        if self.token:
            headers['X-Vault-Token'] = self.token

        if self.namespace:
            headers['X-Vault-Namespace'] = self.namespace

        wrap_ttl = kwargs.pop('wrap_ttl', None)
        if wrap_ttl:
            headers['X-Vault-Wrap-TTL'] = str(wrap_ttl)

        _kwargs = self._kwargs.copy()
        _kwargs.update(kwargs)

        response = self.session.request(
            method=method,
            url=url,
            headers=headers,
            allow_redirects=self.allow_redirects,
            **_kwargs
        )

        if raise_exception and 400 <= response.status_code < 600:
            text = errors = None
            if response.headers.get('Content-Type') == 'application/json':
                errors = response.json().get('errors')
            if errors is None:
                text = response.text
            utils.raise_for_error(response.status_code, text, errors=errors)

        return response