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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_next(self, num_bytes=None):
 """Get the next bytes in the buffer without modifying the offset."""

        if num_bytes is None:
            return self._data[self._offset:]
        else:
            return self._data[self._offset:self._offset + num_bytes]