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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 str2bytes(x):
 """Convert input argument to bytes"""

  if type(x) is bytes:
    return x
  elif type(x) is str:
    return bytes([ ord(i) for i in x ])
  else:
    return str2bytes(str(x))