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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 capfirst(x):
    '''Capitalise the first letter of ``x``.
    '''
    x = to_string(x).strip()
    if x:
        return x[0].upper() + x[1:].lower()
    else:
        return x