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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 am_to_im(am):
 r""" Convert an adjacency matrix into an incidence matrix """

    if am.shape[0] != am.shape[1]:
        raise Exception('Adjacency matrices must be square')
    if am.format != 'coo':
        am = am.tocoo(copy=False)
    conn = sp.vstack((am.row, am.col)).T
    row = conn[:, 0]
    data = am.data
    col = sp.arange(sp.size(am.data))
    if istriangular(am):
        row = sp.append(row, conn[:, 1])
        data = sp.append(data, data)
        col = sp.append(col, col)
    im = sprs.coo.coo_matrix((data, (row, col)), (row.max()+1, col.max()+1))
    return im