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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 normalizePointName(value):
 """ Normalizes point name. * **value** must be a :ref:`type-string`. * **value** must be at least one character long. * Returned value will be an unencoded ``unicode`` string. """

    if not isinstance(value, basestring):
        raise TypeError("Point names must be strings, not %s."
                        % type(value).__name__)
    if len(value) < 1:
        raise ValueError("Point names must be at least one character long.")
    return unicode(value)