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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 next_content(self, start, amount=1):
 """Returns the next non-whitespace characters"""

        while start < len(self.code) and self.code[start] in (' ', '\t', '\n'):
            start += 1

        return self.code[start: start + amount]