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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 _eval(self, teaching):
 """ Returns the evaluation. """

        # transform if someone called _get directly
        if isinstance(teaching, string_types):
            teaching = self._validate_teaching(None, teaching, namespaces=self._namespaces)

        return teaching(self._dataObject)