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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 _type_convert(self, value):
 """ Converts the value returned by the XMl parse into the equivalent Python type """

        if value is None:
            return value

        try:
            return datetime.datetime.strptime(value, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
        except ValueError:
            pass

        try:
            return int(value)
        except ValueError:
            pass

        try:
            return decimal.Decimal(value)
        except decimal.InvalidOperation:
            pass

        return value