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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 validate_minmax_axis(axis):
 """ Ensure that the axis argument passed to min, max, argmin, or argmax is zero or None, as otherwise it will be incorrectly ignored. Parameters axis : int or None Raises ------ ValueError """

    ndim = 1  # hard-coded for Index
    if axis is None:
        return
    if axis >= ndim or (axis < 0 and ndim + axis < 0):
        raise ValueError("`axis` must be fewer than the number of "
                         "dimensions ({ndim})".format(ndim=ndim))