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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 prev_content(self, start, amount=1):
 """Returns the prev non-whitespace characters"""

        while start > 0 and self.code[start] in (' ', '\t', '\n'):
            start -= 1

        return self.code[(start or amount) - amount: start]