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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_fname(self):
 """Extracts the actual string from the available bytes."""

        self.fname = self.fname[:self.fname.find('\0')]
        self.fname = self.fname.replace('\\', '/')