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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 newComment(content):
 """Creation of a new node containing a comment. """

    ret = libxml2mod.xmlNewComment(content)
    if ret is None:raise treeError('xmlNewComment() failed')
    return xmlNode(_obj=ret)