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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 insert_entries(self, entries_xml, taxids=None):
 """Inserts UniProt entries from XML :param str entries_xml: XML string :param Optional[list[int]] taxids: NCBI taxonomy IDs """


        entries = etree.fromstring(entries_xml)
        del entries_xml

        for entry in entries:
            self.insert_entry(entry, taxids)
            entry.clear()
            del entry

        entries.clear()
        del entries

        self.session.commit()