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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 download(url, encoding='utf-8'):
 """Returns the text fetched via http GET from URL, read as `encoding`"""

    import requests
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.encoding = encoding
    return response.text