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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 save(self, filename):
 """ Save validator object to pickle. """

        with open(filename, 'wb') as output:
            pickle.dump(self, output, protocol=pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)