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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 _EncodeString(self, string):
 """Encodes the string. Args: string (str):
 string to encode. Returns: bytes: encoded string. """

    try:
      # Note that encode() will first convert string into a Unicode string
      # if necessary.
      encoded_string = string.encode(self._encoding, errors=self._errors)
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
      if self._errors == 'strict':
        logging.error(
            'Unable to properly write output due to encoding error. '
            'Switching to error tolerant encoding which can result in '
            'non Basic Latin (C0) characters to be replaced with "?" or '
            '"\\ufffd".')
        self._errors = 'replace'

      encoded_string = string.encode(self._encoding, errors=self._errors)

    return encoded_string