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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 ucnstring_to_unicode(ucn_string):
 """Return ucnstring as Unicode."""

    ucn_string = ucnstring_to_python(ucn_string).decode('utf-8')

    assert isinstance(ucn_string, text_type)
    return ucn_string