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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 send(self, data):

 """Send data to socket."""

        # send message
        _LOGGER.debug("send: " + data)
        self.socket.send(data.encode('ascii'))
        # sleep needed to prevent flooding the GC100 with sends
        sleep(.01)