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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 free(self, ptr):
 #pylint:disable=unused-argument """ A somewhat faithful implementation of libc `free`. :param ptr: the location in memory to be freed """

        raise NotImplementedError("%s not implemented for %s" % (self.free.__func__.__name__,
                                                                 self.__class__.__name__))