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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 raise_(tp, value=None, tb=None):
 """ A function that matches the Python 2.x ``raise`` statement. This allows re-raising exceptions with the cls value and traceback on Python 2 and 3. """

    if value is not None and isinstance(tp, Exception):
        raise TypeError("instance exception may not have a separate value")
    if value is not None:
        exc = tp(value)
    else:
        exc = tp
    if exc.__traceback__ is not tb:
        raise exc.with_traceback(tb)
    raise exc