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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 b64decode(foo, *args):
    'Only here for consistency with the above.'
    if isinstance(foo, str):
        foo = foo.encode('utf8')
    return base64.b64decode(foo, *args)