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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 json_decode(value: Union[str, bytes]) -> Any: """Returns Python objects for the given JSON string. Supports both `str` and `bytes` inputs. """

    return json.loads(to_basestring(value))