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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 convert_mapping(self, mapping):
 """Convenience method to track either a dict or a 2-tuple iterator."""

        if isinstance(mapping, dict):
            return self.convert_items(iteritems(mapping))
        return self.convert_items(mapping)