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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 fetch_url(url):
 """ Fetch the given url, strip formfeeds and decode it into the defined encoding """


    with closing(urllib.urlopen(url)) as f:
        if f.code is 200:
            response = f.read()
            return strip_formfeeds(response).decode(ENCODING)