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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 _sanitize_value(x):
 """ Performs cleaning steps on the data so various type comparisons can be performed correctly. """

    if isinstance(x, _six.string_types + _six.integer_types + (float,)):
        return x
    elif _HAS_SKLEARN and _sp.issparse(x):
        return x.todense()
    elif isinstance(x, _np.ndarray):
        return x
    elif isinstance(x, tuple):
        return (_sanitize_value(v) for v in x)
    elif isinstance(x, list):
        return [_sanitize_value(v) for v in x]
    elif isinstance(x, dict):
        return dict( (_sanitize_value(k), _sanitize_value(v)) for k, v in x.items())
    else:
        assert False, str(x)