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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 _clean(self, value):
 		"""Perform a standardized pipline of operations across an iterable."""

		
		value = (str(v) for v in value)
		
		if self.strip:
			value = (v.strip() for v in value)
		
		if not self.empty:
			value = (v for v in value if v)
		
		return value