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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 _docs(self):
 """ Since `self.docs` may yield documents that do not explicitly contain `_index` or `_type`, add those attributes here, if necessary. """

        iterdocs = iter(self.docs())
        first = next(iterdocs)
        needs_parsing = False
        if isinstance(first, six.string_types):
            needs_parsing = True
        elif isinstance(first, dict):
            pass
        else:
            raise RuntimeError('Document must be either JSON strings or dict.')
        for doc in itertools.chain([first], iterdocs):
            if needs_parsing:
                doc = json.loads(doc)
            if '_index' not in doc:
                doc['_index'] = self.index
            if '_type' not in doc:
                doc['_type'] = self.doc_type
            yield doc