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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 sysidpath(ignore_options=False):
 """ get a unique identifier for the machine running this function """

    # in the event we have to make our own
    # this should not be passed in a as a parameter
    # since we need these definitions to be more or less static
    failover = Path('/tmp/machine-id')

    if not ignore_options:
        options = (
            Path('/etc/machine-id'),
            failover,  # always read to see if we somehow managed to persist this
        )
        for option in options:
            if (option.exists() and
                os.access(option, os.R_OK) and
                option.stat().st_size > 0):
                    return option

    uuid = uuid4()
    with open(failover, 'wt') as f:
        f.write(uuid.hex)

    return failover