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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 bytes_to_str(s, encoding='utf-8'):
 """Returns a str if a bytes object is given."""

    if six.PY3 and isinstance(s, bytes):
        return s.decode(encoding)
    return s