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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 follow_bytes(self, s, index):
        "Follows transitions."
        for ch in s:
            index = self.follow_char(int_from_byte(ch), index)
            if index is None:
                return None

        return index