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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 copy(self, dest):
 """ Copy item to the given `dest` path. Args: * dest: destination path to copy. """

        if os.path.isfile(self.path):
            shutil.copy2(self.path, dest)
        else:
            shutil.copytree(self.path, dest, symlinks=False, ignore=None)