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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 prepare_message(self, message_data, delivery_mode, content_type, content_encoding, **kwargs):
 """Prepare message for sending."""

        return (message_data, content_type, content_encoding)