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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 make_unicode(s, encoding='utf-8', encoding_errors='strict'):
 """ Return the unicode version of an input. """

    if not isinstance(s, unicode):
        if not isinstance(s, basestring):
            return unicode(str(s), encoding, encoding_errors)
        return unicode(s, encoding, encoding_errors)
    return s