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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 format(self, obj, **kwargs):
 """Return the formatted representation of the object as a string."""

        sio = StringIO()
        self.fprint(obj, stream=sio, **kwargs)
        return sio.getvalue()