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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 toUnicode(s):
 """ Take a string or unicode, turn it into unicode, decoding as utf-8 """

    if isinstance(s, six.binary_type):
        s = s.decode('utf-8')
    return s