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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 setWhitespaceChars( self, chars ):
 """ Overrides the default whitespace chars """

        self.skipWhitespace = True
        self.whiteChars = chars
        self.copyDefaultWhiteChars = False
        return self