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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 _is_valid_file(self, path):
 """Simple check to see if file path exists. Does not check for valid YAML format."""

        return isinstance(path, basestring) and os.path.isfile(path)