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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 md5(text):
 """Returns the md5 hash of a string."""


    h = hashlib.md5()
    h.update(_unicode(text).encode("utf-8"))

    return h.hexdigest()