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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 as_set(self, decode=False):
 """ Return a Python set containing all the items in the collection. """

        items = self.database.smembers(self.key)
        return set(_decode(item) for item in items) if decode else items