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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_textmetrics(metrics):
    '''
    Format metrics for the carbon plaintext protocol
    '''

    data = [' '.join(map(six.text_type, metric)) for metric in metrics] + ['']

    return '\n'.join(data)