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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 requestEnv(self, env={}):
 """Send requests to set the environment variables for the channel """

        for variable, value in env.items():
            data = common.NS(variable) + common.NS(value)
            self.sendRequest('env', data)