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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(self, url):
 """returns text content of HTTP GET response."""

        r = requests.get(url)
        if self.verbose:
            sys.stdout.write("%s %s\n" % (r.status_code, r.encoding))
            sys.stdout.write(str(r.headers) + "\n")
        self.encoding = r.encoding
        return r.text