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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 _merge_params(url, params):
 """Merge and encode query parameters with an URL."""

    if isinstance(params, dict):
        params = list(params.items())

    scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urllib.parse.urlsplit(url)
    url_params = urllib.parse.parse_qsl(query, keep_blank_values=True)
    url_params.extend(params)

    query = _encode_data(url_params)

    return urllib.parse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment))