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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 _send(self, msg, buffers=None):
 """Sends a message to the model in the front-end."""

        if self.comm is not None and self.comm.kernel is not None:
            self.comm.send(data=msg, buffers=buffers)