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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 serialize(self, value, entity=None, request=None):
 """ Validate and serialize the value. This is the default implementation """


    ret = self.from_python(value)
    self.validate(ret)
    self.run_validators(value)
    return ret