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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 send(self, topic, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Appends the prefix to the topic before sendingf """

        prefix_topic = self.heroku_kafka.prefix_topic(topic)
        return super(HerokuKafkaProducer, self).send(prefix_topic, *args, **kwargs)