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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 decode(cls, s):
 """decodes a base64 string to plain text :param s: unicode str|bytes, the base64 encoded string :returns: unicode str """

        b = ByteString(s)
        bd = base64.b64decode(b)
        return String(bd)