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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_numeric(self, value, strict=False):
 """if value is numeric"""

        value = stringify(value)
        if value is not None:
            if value.isnumeric():
                return
        self.shout('value %r is not numeric', strict, value)