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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 decode(cls, root_element):
 """ Decode the object to the object :param root_element: the parsed xml Element :type root_element: xml.etree.ElementTree.Element :return: the decoded Element as object :rtype: object """

        new_object = cls()
        field_names_to_attributes = new_object._get_field_names_to_attributes()
        for child_element in root_element:
            new_object._set_field(new_object, field_names_to_attributes, child_element)
        return new_object