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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 configure(self, conf={}):
 """ Allows updating of the configuration via a dictionary of configuration terms or a configuration object. Generally speaking, this method is utilized to configure the object from a JSON or YAML parsing. """

        if not conf: return
        if isinstance(conf, Configuration):
            conf = dict(conf.options())
        for key, value in conf.items():
            opt = self.get(key, None)
            if isinstance(opt, Configuration):
                opt.configure(value)
            else:
                setattr(self, key, value)