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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 loads(self, s):
 """ Load data from a string. :param s: input data :type s: str """

        io = six.StringIO()
        io.write(s)
        io.seek(0)
        self.load(io)
        self.validate()