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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, request):
 """ Send a SOAP method call :param request: :class:`suds.transport.Request <suds.transport.Request>` object :return: :class:`suds.transport.Reply <suds.transport.Reply>` object :rtype: suds.transport.Reply """

        url = request.url
        msg = request.message
        headers = request.headers
        logger.debug('Sending SOAP request: %s' % url)
        statsd.incr('soap.send')
        with statsd.timer('soap.send'):
            resp = requests.post(url,
                proxies=self.proxies(url),
                timeout=self.send_timeout,
                data=msg,
                headers=headers)
        resp.raise_for_status()
        reply = Reply(requests.codes.OK, resp.headers, resp.content)
        return reply