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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 create_branches(self, branches):
 """ Create branches from a TreeBuffer or dict mapping names to type names Parameters branches : TreeBuffer or dict """

        if not isinstance(branches, TreeBuffer):
            branches = TreeBuffer(branches)
        self.set_buffer(branches, create_branches=True)