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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 _split_tidy(self, string, maxsplit=None):
 """Rstrips string for \n and splits string for \t"""


        if maxsplit is None:
            return string.rstrip("\n").split("\t")
        else:
            return string.rstrip("\n").split("\t", maxsplit)