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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 unsubscribe(self, topic):
 """Unsubscribe the client from one or more topics. topic: A single string, or list of strings that are the subscription topics to unsubscribe from. Returns a tuple (result, mid), where result is MQTT_ERR_SUCCESS to indicate success or (MQTT_ERR_NO_CONN, None) if the client is not currently connected. mid is the message ID for the unsubscribe request. The mid value can be used to track the unsubscribe request by checking against the mid argument in the on_unsubscribe() callback if it is defined. Raises a ValueError if topic is None or has zero string length, or is not a string or list. """

        topic_list = None
        if topic is None:
            raise ValueError('Invalid topic.')
        if isinstance(topic, str):
            if len(topic) == 0:
                raise ValueError('Invalid topic.')
            topic_list = [topic.encode('utf-8')]
        elif isinstance(topic, list):
            topic_list = []
            for t in topic:
                if len(t) == 0 or not isinstance(t, str):
                    raise ValueError('Invalid topic.')
                topic_list.append(t.encode('utf-8'))

        if topic_list is None:
            raise ValueError("No topic specified, or incorrect topic type.")

        if self._sock is None and self._ssl is None:
            return (MQTT_ERR_NO_CONN, None)

        return self._send_unsubscribe(False, topic_list)