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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 validate_clip_with_axis(axis, args, kwargs):
 """ If 'NDFrame.clip' is called via the numpy library, the third parameter in its signature is 'out', which can takes an ndarray, so check if the 'axis' parameter is an instance of ndarray, since 'axis' itself should either be an integer or None """


    if isinstance(axis, ndarray):
        args = (axis,) + args
        axis = None

    validate_clip(args, kwargs)
    return axis