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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 _split_row(self, row, border):

 """ split a row of text into list of cells. """

        if border:
            if row.startswith('|'):
                row = row[1:]
            if row.endswith('|'):
                row = row[:-1]
        return row.split('|')