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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 parse_logs(self, f):
 """Parse a given HiCExplorer log file from hicBuildMatrix."""

        data = {}
        for l in f.splitlines():
            # catch empty lines
            if len(l) == 0:
                continue
            s = l.split("\t")
            data_ = []
            # catch lines with descriptive content: "Of pairs used:"
            for i in s[1:]:
                if len(i) == 0:
                    continue
                try:
                    i.replace('(', '')
                    i.replace(')', '')
                    i.replace(',', '')

                    data_.append(float(i))
                except ValueError:
                    data_.append(i)
            if len(data_) == 0:
                continue
            if s[0].startswith('short range'):
                s[0] = 'short range'
            elif s[0].startswith('same fragment'):
                s[0] = 'same fragment'
            s[0] = s[0].capitalize()
            data[s[0]] = data_
        return data