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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 iterable(item):

 """generate iterable from item, but leaves out strings
 
 """

    if isinstance(item, collections.Iterable) and not isinstance(item, basestring):
        return item
    else:
        return [item]