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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 is_equal_strings_ignore_case(first, second):

 """The function compares strings ignoring case"""

    if first and second:
        return first.upper() == second.upper()
    else:
        return not (first or second)