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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 error_value_processor(value, error):
 """ If an error is a percentage, we convert to a float, then calculate the percentage of the supplied value. :param value: base value, e.g. 10 :param error: e.g. 20.0% :return: the absolute error, e.g. 12 for the above case. """

    if isinstance(error, (str, unicode)):
        try:
            if "%" in error:
                error_float = float(error.replace("%", ""))
                error_abs = (value/100) * error_float
                return error_abs
            elif error == "":
                error = 0.0
            else:
                error = float(error)
        except:
            pass

    return error