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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_text(obj, name=None):
 """ returns True if object is text-like """

    try:  # python2
        ans = isinstance(obj, basestring)
    except NameError:  # python3
        ans = isinstance(obj, str)
    if name:
        print("is_text: (%s) %s = %s" % (ans, name, obj.__class__),
              file=sys.stderr)
    return ans