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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 conform(self, rhs):
 """ inplace conform rhs """

        if not is_list_like(rhs):
            rhs = [rhs]
        if isinstance(rhs, np.ndarray):
            rhs = rhs.ravel()
        return rhs