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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 remove(text, what, count=None, strip=False):
    '''
    Like ``replace``, where ``new`` replacement is an empty string.
    '''
    return replace(text, what, '', count=count, strip=strip)