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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 _post(url, data, content_type, params=None):
 """HTTP POST request."""

        try:
            response = requests.post(url, params=params, data=data, headers={
                'Content-Type': content_type,
            })
            response.raise_for_status()
            return response.json()
        except NameError:
            url = '{0}?{1}'.format(url, urllib.urlencode(params))
            req = urllib2.Request(url, data.encode(ENCODING), {
                'Content-Type': content_type,
            })
            return json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(req).read().decode(ENCODING))