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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 stn(s, length, encoding, errors):
 """Convert a string to a null-terminated bytes object. """

    s = s.encode(encoding, errors)
    return s[:length] + (length - len(s)) * NUL