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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 safe_dump(data):
 """ Dump the provided data to a YAML document and returns a string. :param data: A string containing an absolute path to the file to parse. :return: str """

    # TODO(retr0h): Do we need to encode?
    # yaml.dump(data) produces the document as a str object in both python
    # 2 and 3.
    return yaml.dump(
        data, Dumper=SafeDumper, default_flow_style=False, explicit_start=True)