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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 _pip_exists(self):
 """Returns True if pip exists inside the virtual environment. Can be used as a naive way to verify that the environment is installed."""

        return os.path.isfile(os.path.join(self.path, 'bin', 'pip'))