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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 exception(self):
 """String representation of the exception."""

        buf = traceback.format_exception_only(self.exc_type, self.exc_value)
        rv = "".join(buf).strip()
        return to_unicode(rv, "utf-8", "replace")