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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_readable(self, obj):
 """Check if the argument is a readable file-like object."""

        try:
            read = getattr(obj, 'read')
        except AttributeError:
            return False
        else:
            return is_method(read, max_arity=1)