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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 read(self, len):
 """Refresh the content of the input buffer, the old data are considered consumed This routine handle the I18N transcoding to internal UTF-8 """

        ret = libxml2mod.xmlParserInputBufferRead(self._o, len)
        return ret