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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 timestamp(self, timestamp):
 """Entry timestamp as datetime."""

        if timestamp is None:
            self._timestamp = datetime.utcnow()
        elif isinstance(timestamp, datetime):
            self._timestamp = timestamp
        else:
            self._timestamp = datetime.strptime(timestamp, fmt)