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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_categories(self, new_categories, ordered=None, rename=False, inplace=False):
 """ Set the categories to the specified new_categories. `new_categories` can include new categories (which will result in unused categories) or remove old categories (which results in values set to NaN). If `rename==True`, the categories will simple be renamed (less or more items than in old categories will result in values set to NaN or in unused categories respectively). This method can be used to perform more than one action of adding, removing, and reordering simultaneously and is therefore faster than performing the individual steps via the more specialised methods. On the other hand this methods does not do checks (e.g., whether the old categories are included in the new categories on a reorder), which can result in surprising changes, for example when using special string dtypes on python3, which does not considers a S1 string equal to a single char python string. Parameters new_categories : Index-like The categories in new order. ordered : bool, default False Whether or not the categorical is treated as a ordered categorical. If not given, do not change the ordered information. rename : bool, default False Whether or not the new_categories should be considered as a rename of the old categories or as reordered categories. inplace : bool, default False Whether or not to reorder the categories in-place or return a copy of this categorical with reordered categories. Returns ------- Categorical with reordered categories or None if inplace. Raises ------ ValueError If new_categories does not validate as categories See Also -------- rename_categories reorder_categories add_categories remove_categories remove_unused_categories """

        inplace = validate_bool_kwarg(inplace, 'inplace')
        if ordered is None:
            ordered = self.dtype.ordered
        new_dtype = CategoricalDtype(new_categories, ordered=ordered)

        cat = self if inplace else self.copy()
        if rename:
            if (cat.dtype.categories is not None and
                    len(new_dtype.categories) < len(cat.dtype.categories)):
                # remove all _codes which are larger and set to -1/NaN
                cat._codes[cat._codes >= len(new_dtype.categories)] = -1
        else:
            codes = _recode_for_categories(cat.codes, cat.categories,
                                           new_dtype.categories)
            cat._codes = codes
        cat._dtype = new_dtype

        if not inplace:
            return cat