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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 from_string(cls, contents, **kwargs):
 		""" 		Given a markdown string, create an Entry object. 		Usually subclasses will want to customize the parts of the markdown 		where you provide values for attributes like public - this can be done 		by overriding the process_meta method. 		"""

		lines = contents.splitlines()
		title = None
		description = None

		line = lines.pop(0)
		while line != '':
			if not title and line.startswith('#'):
				title = line[1:].strip()
			elif line.startswith('title:'):
				title = line[6:].strip()
			elif line.startswith('description:'):
				description = line[12:].strip()
			elif line.startswith('subtitle:'):
				kwargs['subtitle'] = line[9:].strip()
			elif line.startswith('comments:'):
				try:
					kwargs['allow_comments'] = _str_to_bool(line[9:])
				except ValueError:
					LOG.warning('invalid boolean value for comments', exc_info=True)

			cls.process_meta(line, kwargs)

			line = lines.pop(0)

		# the only lines left should be the actual contents
		body = '\n'.join(lines).strip()
		excerpt = _get_excerpt(body)
		if description is None:
			description = _get_description(excerpt, 160)
		if issubclass(cls, Post):
			kwargs['excerpt'] = render_markdown(excerpt)
		body = render_markdown(body)

		return cls(title=title, body=body, description=description, **kwargs)