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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 writer(self, outputs, stdout, stderr=sys.stderr):
 """ Writer format is a method which iterates over the output records from the reducer and formats them for output. The default implementation outputs tab separated items. """

        for output in outputs:
            try:
                output = flatten(output)
                if self.data_interchange_format == "json":
                    # Only dump one json string, and skip another one, maybe key or value.
                    output = filter(lambda x: x, output)
                else:
                    # JSON is already serialized, so we put `self.serialize` in a else statement.
                    output = map(self.serialize, output)
                print("\t".join(output), file=stdout)
            except BaseException:
                print(output, file=stderr)
                raise