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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 load_vstr(buf, pos):
 """Load bytes prefixed by vint length"""

    slen, pos = load_vint(buf, pos)
    return load_bytes(buf, slen, pos)