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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 from_string(self, string_representation, resource=None):
 """ Extracts resource data from the given string and converts them to a new resource or updates the given resource from it. """

        stream = NativeIO(string_representation)
        return self.from_stream(stream, resource=resource)