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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 clean_uri(self):
 """ Validates the URI """

        if self.instance.fixed:
            return self.instance.uri

        uri = self.cleaned_data['uri']
        # todo: URI validation
        return uri