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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 dumps_bytes(obj):
 """ Serialize ``obj`` to JSON formatted ``bytes``. """

    b = dumps(obj)
    if isinstance(b, unicode):
        b = b.encode("ascii")
    return b