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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 write(self, text, encoding="utf-8"):
 """ Writes the given text to the file using the given encoding. """

        logger.info("Writing to %s" % self)
        with codecs.open(self.path, 'w', encoding) as fout:
            fout.write(text)