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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 to_base64(self, skip=()):
 """ Construct from base64-encoded JSON. """

        return base64.b64encode(
            ensure_bytes(
                self.to_json(skip=skip),
                encoding='utf-8',
            )
        )