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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 iterable(target):
    ''' returns true if the given argument is iterable '''
    if any(i in ('next', '__next__', '__iter__') for i in dir(target)):
        return True
    else:
        try:
            iter(target)
            return True
        except:
            return False