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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 initialize(self, request):
 """Store the data we'll need to make the postback from the request object."""

        if request.method == 'GET':
            # PDT only - this data is currently unused
            self.query = request.META.get('QUERY_STRING', '')
        elif request.method == 'POST':
            # The following works if paypal sends an ASCII bytestring, which it does.
            self.query = request.body.decode('ascii')
        self.ipaddress = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR', '')