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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 open(self, request):
 """ Open a SOAP WSDL :param request: :class:`suds.transport.Request <suds.transport.Request>` object :return: WSDL Content as a file-like object :rtype: io.BytesIO """

        url = request.url
        logger.debug('Opening WSDL: %s ' % url)
        statsd.incr('soap.open')
        with statsd.timer('soap.open'):
            if url.startswith('file://'):
                content = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
            else:
                resp = requests.get(url,
                    proxies=self.proxies(url),
                    timeout=self.open_timeout)
                resp.raise_for_status()
                content = io.BytesIO(resp.content)
        return content