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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 delete(self, id):
 """Delete a component by id """

        id = self.as_id(id)
        response = self.http.delete(
            '%s/%s' % (self.api_url, id),
            auth=self.auth)
        response.raise_for_status()