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Given a string, return a new string made of 3 copies of the first 2 chars of the original string. The string may be any length. If there are fewer than 2 chars, use whatever is there.

This exercise was taken from codingbat.com and has been adapted for the Python language. There are many great programming exercises there, but the majority are created for Java.

Test 1

Input:

'Hello'

Output:

'HeHeHe'

Test 2

Input:

'ab'

Output:

'ababab'

Test 3

Input:

'H'

Output:

'HHH'

Test 4

Input:

''

Output:

''

Test 5

Input:

'Candy'

Output:

'CaCaCa'

Test 6

Input:

'Code'

Output:

'CoCoCo'