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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 _convert_input(self, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Takes variable inputs :param args: (dict, Nomenclate), any number of dictionary inputs or Nomenclates to be converted to dicts :param kwargs: str, any number of kwargs that represent token:value pairs :return: dict, combined dictionary of all inputs """

        args = [arg.state if isinstance(arg, Nomenclate) else arg for arg in args]
        input_dict = combine_dicts(*args, **kwargs)
        return input_dict