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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 request(self, tree, **kwargs):
 """ Construct a new request with the given tree as its contents, then ship it to the OpenProvider API. """


        apirequest = lxml.etree.tostring(
            E.openXML(
                E.credentials(
                    E.username(self.username),
                    OE('password', self.password),
                    OE('hash', self.password_hash),
                ),
                tree
            ),

            method='c14n'
        )

        try:
            apiresponse = self.session.post(self.url, data=apirequest)
            apiresponse.raise_for_status()
        except requests.RequestException as e:
            raise ServiceUnavailable(str(e))

        tree = lxml.objectify.fromstring(apiresponse.content)

        if tree.reply.code == 0:
            return Response(tree)
        else:
            klass = from_code(tree.reply.code)
            desc = tree.reply.desc
            code = tree.reply.code
            data = getattr(tree.reply, 'data', '')
            raise klass(u"{0} ({1}) {2}".format(desc, code, data), code)