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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 json2pb(cls, json, strict=False):
 """ Takes a class representing the Protobuf Message and fills it with data from the json string. """

    return dict2pb(cls, simplejson.loads(json), strict)