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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 process_bind_param(self, value, dialect):
 # type: (typing.Any, DefaultDialect) -> typing.Union[str, typing.Any] """Encode data, if required."""

        if self.__use_json(dialect) or value is None:
            return value

        return self.__json_codec.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=not self.__enforce_unicode)