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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 print_safe(str_or_bytes, encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore', output=sys.stdout, newline='\n'):
 """ Print unicode or bytes universally. :param str_or_bytes: string :param encoding: encoding :param output: output file handler :param errors: error handling scheme. Refer to codecs.register_error. """

    writer = output.buffer if hasattr(output, 'buffer') else output

    # When the input type is bytes, verify it can be decoded with the specified encoding.
    decoded = str_or_bytes if is_unicode(str_or_bytes) else to_unicode(str_or_bytes, encoding, errors)
    encoded = to_bytes(decoded, encoding, errors)

    writer.write(encoded + to_bytes(newline, encoding, errors))
    output.flush()