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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 skip(self, num_bytes):
 """Jump the ahead the specified bytes in the buffer."""

        if num_bytes is None:
            self._offset = len(self._data)
        else:
            self._offset += num_bytes