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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 _decode_request(self, encoded_request):
 """Decode an request previously encoded"""

        obj = self.serializer.loads(encoded_request)
        return request_from_dict(obj, self.spider)