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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 url(self, url):
 """ Set API URL endpoint Args: url: the url of the API endpoint """

        if url and url.endswith('/'):
            url = url[:-1]

        self._url = url