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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 _render_iteratable(iteratable, level):
 """Renders iteratable sequence of HTML elements."""

    if isinstance(iteratable, basestring):
        return unicode(iteratable)
    return ''.join([render(element, level) for element in iteratable])