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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 css_class(self, cell):
 """Return the CSS class for this column."""

        if isinstance(self._css_class, basestring):
            return self._css_class
        else:
            return self._css_class(cell)