<SYSTEM_TASK:>
Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
<END_TASK>
<USER_TASK:>
Description:
 def pem_as_string(cert):
 """ Only return False if the certificate is a file path. Otherwise it is a file object or raw string and will need to be fed to the file open context. """

    if hasattr(cert, 'read'): # File object - return as is
        return cert
    cert = cert.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(cert, unicode) else cert
    if re.match(_PEM_RE, cert):
        return True
    return False