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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(obj, protocol=None):
 """Serialize obj as a string of bytes allocated in memory protocol defaults to cloudpickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL which is an alias to pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL. This setting favors maximum communication speed between processes running the same Python version. Set protocol=pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL instead if you need to ensure compatibility with older versions of Python. """

    file = StringIO()
    try:
        cp = CloudPickler(file, protocol=protocol)
        cp.dump(obj)
        return file.getvalue()
    finally:
        file.close()