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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 _http_put(self, url, data, **kwargs):
 """ Performs the HTTP PUT request. """


        kwargs.update({'data': json.dumps(data)})

        return self._http_request('put', url, kwargs)