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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 clean_string(text):
 """ Remove Lucene reserved characters from query string """

    if isinstance(text, six.string_types):
        return text.translate(UNI_SPECIAL_CHARS).strip()
    return text.translate(None, STR_SPECIAL_CHARS).strip()