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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 send_response(self, response):
 """Send a unicode object as reply to the most recently-issued command """

        response_bytes = response.encode(config.CODEC)
        log.debug("About to send reponse: %r", response_bytes)
        self.socket.send(response_bytes)