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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 serialize(self, data):
 """Return the data as serialized string. :param dict data: The data to serialize :rtype: str """

        return json.dumps(self._serialize_datetime(data), ensure_ascii=False)