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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 _post(self, url, data=None, json=None, params=None, headers=None):
 """Wraps a POST request with a url check"""

        url = self.clean_url(url)
        response = requests.post(url, data=data, json=json, params=params,
                                 headers=headers, timeout=self.timeout,
                                 verify=self.verify)
        return response