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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, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Gets the request using the `_url` and converts it into a beautiful soup object. :param args: The args to pass on to `requests`. :param kwargs: The kwargs to pass on to `requests`. """

        response = requests.request(*args, **kwargs)
        return BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")