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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 decodeCommandLine(self, cmdline):
 """Turn a byte string from the command line into a unicode string. """

        codec = getattr(sys.stdin, 'encoding', None) or sys.getdefaultencoding()
        return unicode(cmdline, codec)