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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 get_surface_as_bytes(self, order=None):
 """Returns the surface area as a bytes encoded RGB image buffer. Subclass should override if there is a more efficient conversion than from generating a numpy array first. """

        arr8 = self.get_surface_as_array(order=order)
        return arr8.tobytes(order='C')