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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 prepend(self, bs):
 """Prepend a bitstring to the current bitstring. bs -- The bitstring to prepend. """

        bs = self._converttobitstring(bs)
        self._prepend(bs)
        self._pos += bs.len