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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 metrics(prices, fudge=False, sharpe_days=252., baseline='$SPX'):
 """Calculate the volatiliy, average daily return, Sharpe ratio, and cumulative return Arguments: prices (file or basestring or iterable):
 path to file or file pointer or sequence of prices/values of a portfolio or equity fudge (bool):
 Whether to use Tucker Balche's erroneous division by N or the more accurate N-1 for stddev of returns sharpe_days: Number of trading days in a year. Sharpe ratio = sqrt(sharpe_days) * total_return / std_dev_of_daily_returns Examples: True True """

    if isinstance(prices, basestring) and os.path.isfile(prices):
        prices = open(prices, 'rU')
    if isinstance(prices, file):
        values = {}
        csvreader = csv.reader(prices, dialect='excel', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
        for row in csvreader:
            # print row
            values[tuple(int(s) for s in row[:3])] = row[-1]
        prices.close()
        prices = [v for (k,v) in sorted(values.items())]
        print prices
    if isinstance(prices[0], (tuple, list)):
        prices = [row[-1] for row in prices]
    if sharpe_days == None:
        sharpe_days = len(prices)
    prices = np.array([float(p) for p in prices])
    if not isinstance(fudge, bool) and fudge:
        fudge = float(fudge)
    elif fudge == True or (isinstance(fudge, float) and fudge == 0.0):
        fudge = (len(prices) - 1.) / len(prices)
    else:
        fudge = 1.0
    daily_returns = np.diff(prices) / prices[0:-1]
    # print daily_returns
    end_price = float(prices[-1])
    start_price = (prices[0])
    mean = fudge * np.average(daily_returns)
    variance = fudge * np.sum((daily_returns - mean) * (daily_returns - mean)) / float(len(daily_returns))
    results = {
        'standared deviation of daily returns': math.sqrt(variance), 
        'variance of daily returns': variance, 
        'average daily return': mean, 
        'Sharpe ratio': mean * np.sqrt(sharpe_days) / np.sqrt(variance), 
        'total return': end_price / start_price,
        'final value': end_price,
        'starting value': start_price, 
        }
    results['return rate'] = results['total return'] - 1.0
    return results