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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 k_modes(X, n_clusters, max_iter, dissim, init, n_init, verbose, random_state, n_jobs):
 """k-modes algorithm"""

    random_state = check_random_state(random_state)
    if sparse.issparse(X):
        raise TypeError("k-modes does not support sparse data.")

    X = check_array(X, dtype=None)

    # Convert the categorical values in X to integers for speed.
    # Based on the unique values in X, we can make a mapping to achieve this.
    X, enc_map = encode_features(X)

    n_points, n_attrs = X.shape
    assert n_clusters <= n_points, "Cannot have more clusters ({}) " \
                                   "than data points ({}).".format(n_clusters, n_points)

    # Are there more n_clusters than unique rows? Then set the unique
    # rows as initial values and skip iteration.
    unique = get_unique_rows(X)
    n_unique = unique.shape[0]
    if n_unique <= n_clusters:
        max_iter = 0
        n_init = 1
        n_clusters = n_unique
        init = unique

    results = []
    seeds = random_state.randint(np.iinfo(np.int32).max, size=n_init)
    if n_jobs == 1:
        for init_no in range(n_init):
            results.append(k_modes_single(X, n_clusters, n_points, n_attrs, max_iter,
                                          dissim, init, init_no, verbose, seeds[init_no]))
    else:
        results = Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, verbose=0)(
            delayed(k_modes_single)(X, n_clusters, n_points, n_attrs, max_iter,
                                    dissim, init, init_no, verbose, seed)
            for init_no, seed in enumerate(seeds))
    all_centroids, all_labels, all_costs, all_n_iters = zip(*results)

    best = np.argmin(all_costs)
    if n_init > 1 and verbose:
        print("Best run was number {}".format(best + 1))

    return all_centroids[best], enc_map, all_labels[best], \
        all_costs[best], all_n_iters[best]