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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 prepare_auth(self, auth, url=''):
 """Prepares the given HTTP auth data."""


        # If no Auth is explicitly provided, extract it from the URL first.
        if auth is None:
            url_auth = get_auth_from_url(self.url)
            auth = url_auth if any(url_auth) else None

        if auth:
            if isinstance(auth, tuple) and len(auth) == 2:
                # special-case basic HTTP auth
                auth = HTTPBasicAuth(*auth)

            # Allow auth to make its changes.
            r = auth(self)

            # Update self to reflect the auth changes.
            self.__dict__.update(r.__dict__)

            # Recompute Content-Length
            self.prepare_content_length(self.body)