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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 code(self, text):
 """Return the code instead of the comments. """


        comm = self.nextValidComment(text)
        while comm:
            text = text[:comm.start()] + text[comm.end():]
            comm = self.nextValidComment(text, comm.end(0))
        return text