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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, uri, params=None, postParams=None, verb='GET'):
 """Execute a request on the plugit api"""

        return getattr(requests, verb.lower())(self.url + uri, params=params, data=postParams, stream=True)