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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 request(self, path, data=None, method='GET'):
 """ Convenience Facebook request function. Utility function to request resources via the graph API, with the format expected by Facebook. """

        url = '%s%s?access_token=%s' % (
            'https://graph.facebook.com',
            path,
            self['oauth_token'])

        req = Request(url, data=data)
        req.get_method = lambda: method

        return loads(urlopen(req).read())