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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 are_equivalent(*args, **kwargs):
 """Indicate if arguments passed to this function are equivalent. .. hint:: This checker operates recursively on the members contained within iterables and :class:`dict <python:dict>` objects. .. caution:: If you only pass one argument to this checker - even if it is an iterable - the checker will *always* return ``True``. To evaluate members of an iterable for equivalence, you should instead unpack the iterable into the function like so: .. code-block:: python obj = [1, 1, 1, 2] result = are_equivalent(*obj) # Will return ``False`` by unpacking and evaluating the iterable's members result = are_equivalent(obj) # Will always return True :param args: One or more values, passed as positional arguments. :returns: ``True`` if ``args`` are equivalent, and ``False`` if not. :rtype: :class:`bool <python:bool>` :raises SyntaxError: if ``kwargs`` contains duplicate keyword parameters or duplicates keyword parameters passed to the underlying validator """

    if len(args) == 1:
        return True

    first_item = args[0]
    for item in args[1:]:
        if type(item) != type(first_item):                                      # pylint: disable=C0123
            return False

        if isinstance(item, dict):
            if not are_dicts_equivalent(item, first_item):
                return False
        elif hasattr(item, '__iter__') and not isinstance(item, (str, bytes, dict)):
            if len(item) != len(first_item):
                return False
            for value in item:
                if value not in first_item:
                    return False
            for value in first_item:
                if value not in item:
                    return False
        else:
            if item != first_item:
                return False

    return True