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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 is_unicode(string):
 """Validates that the object itself is some kinda string"""

    str_type = str(type(string))

    if str_type.find('str') > 0 or str_type.find('unicode') > 0:
        return True

    return False