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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 deserialize(type_, value=None, **kwargs):
    '''Get an object from a text representation'''
    if not isinstance(type_, str):
        return type_
    des = deserializer(type_, **kwargs)
    if value is None:
        return des
    return des(value)