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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 json(self, json_file):
 """ Reads and parses the input of a json file handler or file. Json files are parsed differently depending on if the root is a dictionary or an array. 1) If the json's root is a dictionary, these are parsed into a sequence of (Key, Value) pairs 2) If the json's root is an array, these are parsed into a sequence of entries [u'sarah', {u'date_created': u'08/08', u'news_email': True, u'email': u'sarah@gmail.com'}] :param json_file: path or file containing json content :return: Sequence wrapping jsonl file """

        if isinstance(json_file, str):
            file_open = get_read_function(json_file, self.disable_compression)
            input_file = file_open(json_file)
            json_input = jsonapi.load(input_file)
        elif hasattr(json_file, 'read'):
            json_input = jsonapi.load(json_file)
        else:
            raise ValueError('json_file must be a file path or implement the iterator interface')

        if isinstance(json_input, list):
            return self(json_input)
        else:
            return self(six.viewitems(json_input))