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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 to_python(self, value):
        "Normalize data to a list of strings."
        # Return None if no input was given.
        if not value:
            return []
        return [v.strip() for v in value.splitlines() if v != ""]