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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 set_path (self, path):
 """ Sets the path. When generating target name, it will override any path computation from properties. """

        assert isinstance(path, basestring)
        self.path_ = os.path.normpath(path)