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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 python_to_euc(uni_char, as_bytes=False):
 """ Return EUC character from a Python Unicode character. Converts a one character Python unicode string (e.g. u'\\u4e00') to the corresponding EUC hex ('d2bb'). """

    euc = repr(uni_char.encode("gb2312"))[1:-1].replace("\\x", "").strip("'")

    if as_bytes:
        euc = euc.encode('utf-8')
        assert isinstance(euc, bytes)

    return euc