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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, auth_header=None, callback=None, **data):
 """ Serializes the message and passes the payload onto ``send_encoded``. """

        message = self.encode(data)

        return self.send_encoded(message, auth_header=auth_header, callback=callback)