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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 validate(key):
 """Check that the key is a string or bytestring. That's the only valid type of key. """

    if not isinstance(key, (str, bytes)):
        raise KeyError('Key must be of type str or bytes, found type {}'.format(type(key)))