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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 strip_commands(commands):
 """ Strips a sequence of commands. Strips down the sequence of commands by removing comments and surrounding whitespace around each individual command and then removing blank commands. Parameters commands : iterable of strings Iterable of commands to strip. Returns ------- stripped_commands : list of str The stripped commands with blank ones removed. """

    # Go through each command one by one, stripping it and adding it to
    # a growing list if it is not blank. Each command needs to be
    # converted to an str if it is a bytes.
    stripped_commands = []
    for v in commands:
        if isinstance(v, bytes):
            v = v.decode(errors='replace')
        v = v.split(';')[0].strip()
        if len(v) != 0:
            stripped_commands.append(v)
    return stripped_commands