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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 append_string(self, value):
 """Appends a length-prefixed string to our buffer, with the length varint-encoded. """

        self._stream.append_var_uint32(len(value))
        self._stream.append_raw_bytes(value)