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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 convert_unicode(value):
 """Resolves python 2 issue with json loading in unicode instead of string Args: value (str):
 Unicode value to be converted Returns: (str):
 converted string """

    if isinstance(value, dict):
        return {convert_unicode(key): convert_unicode(value)
                for key, value in value.iteritems()}
    elif isinstance(value, list):
        return [convert_unicode(item) for item in value]
    elif isinstance(value, unicode):
        return value.encode('utf-8')
    else:
        return value