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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 equals(self, rhs):
 """Check to see if the RHS is an instance of class_name. Args: # rhs: the right hand side of the test rhs: object Returns: bool """


    try:
      return isinstance(rhs, self._class_name)
    except TypeError:
      # Check raw types if there was a type error.  This is helpful for
      # things like cStringIO.StringIO.
      return type(rhs) == type(self._class_name)