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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 asbool(value, true=(b'true', u'true'), false=(b'false', u'false')):
 """Return string as bool if possible, else raise TypeError. False """

    value = value.strip().lower()
    if value in true:  # might raise UnicodeWarning/BytesWarning
        return True
    if value in false:
        return False
    raise TypeError()