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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 _xml_convert(self, element):
 """ convert the xml `element` into the corresponding python object """


        children = list(element)

        if len(children) == 0:
            return self._type_convert(element.text)
        else:
            # if the fist child tag is list-item means all children are list-item
            if children[0].tag == "list-item":
                data = []
                for child in children:
                    data.append(self._xml_convert(child))
            else:
                data = {}
                for child in children:
                    data[child.tag] = self._xml_convert(child)

            return data