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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 response_to_json_dict(response, **kwargs):
 """ Standard place to convert responses to JSON. :param response: requests response object :param **kwargs: arguments accepted by json.loads :returns: dict of JSON response """

    if response.encoding is None:
        response.encoding = 'utf-8'
    return json.loads(response.text, **kwargs)