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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_file(dirname):
    '''Checks if a path is an actual file that exists'''
    if not os.path.isfile(dirname):
        msg = "{0} is not an existing file".format(dirname)
        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(msg)
    else:
        return dirname