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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_value(self, name, value, PY2_frontend):
 """Set the value of a variable"""

        import cloudpickle
        ns = self._get_reference_namespace(name)

        # We send serialized values in a list of one element
        # from Spyder to the kernel, to be able to send them
        # at all in Python 2
        svalue = value[0]

        # We need to convert svalue to bytes if the frontend
        # runs in Python 2 and the kernel runs in Python 3
        if PY2_frontend and not PY2:
            svalue = bytes(svalue, 'latin-1')

        # Deserialize and set value in namespace
        dvalue = cloudpickle.loads(svalue)
        ns[name] = dvalue
        self.log.debug(ns)