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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 _postback(self):
 """Perform PayPal Postback validation."""

        return requests.post(self.get_endpoint(), data=b"cmd=_notify-validate&" + self.query.encode("ascii")).content