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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, path, args=[], files=[], opts={}, stream=False, decoder=None, headers={}, data=None):
 """Makes an HTTP request to the IPFS daemon. This function returns the contents of the HTTP response from the IPFS daemon. Raises ------ ~ipfsapi.exceptions.ErrorResponse ~ipfsapi.exceptions.ConnectionError ~ipfsapi.exceptions.ProtocolError ~ipfsapi.exceptions.StatusError ~ipfsapi.exceptions.TimeoutError Parameters path : str The REST command path to send args : list Positional parameters to be sent along with the HTTP request files : :class:`io.RawIOBase` | :obj:`str` | :obj:`list` The file object(s) or path(s) to stream to the daemon opts : dict Query string paramters to be sent along with the HTTP request decoder : str The encoder to use to parse the HTTP response kwargs : dict Additional arguments to pass to :mod:`requests` """

        url = self.base + path

        params = []
        params.append(('stream-channels', 'true'))
        for opt in opts.items():
            params.append(opt)
        for arg in args:
            params.append(('arg', arg))

        method = 'post' if (files or data) else 'get'

        parser = encoding.get_encoding(decoder if decoder else "none")

        return self._request(method, url, params, parser, stream,
                             files, headers, data)