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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 enforce_type(self, attr, val):
 """converts a value to the attribute's type"""

        if not attr in self.types:
            return utfstr(val)
        elif self.types[attr] == 'int':
            return int(float(val))
        elif self.types[attr] == 'float':
            return float(val)
        else:
            return utfstr(val)