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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_country(self, country):
 """ This sets the country for detecting license plates. For example, setting country to "us" for United States or "eu" for Europe. :param country: A unicode/ascii string (Python 2/3) or bytes array (Python 3) :return: None """

        country = _convert_to_charp(country)
        self._set_country_func(self.alpr_pointer, country)