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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 _serialize_object(self, response_data, request):
 """ Create a python datatype from the given python object. This will use ``self.factory`` object's ``serialize()`` function to convert the object into dictionary. If no factory is defined, this will simply return the same data that was given. :param response_data: data returned by the resource """


        if not self.factory:
            return response_data
        if isinstance(response_data, (list, tuple)):
            return map(
                lambda item: self.factory.serialize(item, request),
                response_data)
        else:
            return self.factory.serialize(response_data, request)