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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 _ixor(self, other):
 		"""Set self to the symmetric difference between the sets. 		if isinstance(other, _basebag):
 			This runs in O(other.num_unique_elements()) 		else: 			This runs in O(len(other)) 		"""

		if isinstance(other, _basebag):
			for elem, other_count in other.counts():
				count = abs(self.count(elem) - other_count)
				self._set_count(elem, count)
		else:
			# Let a = self.count(elem) and b = other.count(elem)
			# if a >= b then elem is removed from self b times leaving a - b
			# if a < b then elem is removed from self a times then added (b - a)
			# times leaving a - a + (b - a) = b - a
			for elem in other:
				try:
					self._increment_count(elem, -1)
				except ValueError:
					self._increment_count(elem, 1)
		return self