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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 _set_covars(self, covars):
 """Provide values for covariance"""

        covars = np.asarray(covars)
        _validate_covars(covars, self.covariance_type, self.n_components)
        self.covars_ = covars