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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 shutdown_rd(self):
 """ Send a shutdown signal for reading - you may no longer read from this socket. """

        if self._sock_send is not None:
            self.sock.close()
        else:
            return self.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RD)