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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 _sync_projects(self, projects_json):
 """"Populate the user's projects from a JSON encoded list."""

        for project_json in projects_json:
            project_id = project_json['id']
            self.projects[project_id] = Project(project_json, self)