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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 safeunicode(arg, *args, **kwargs):
 	"""Coerce argument to unicode, if it's not already."""

	return arg if isinstance(arg, unicode) else unicode(arg, *args, **kwargs)