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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 url(self, request=""):
 """Build the url with the appended request if provided."""

        if request.startswith("/"):
            request = request[1:]
        return "{}://{}/{}".format(self.scheme, self.host, request)