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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 cats(self, cats):
 """Set sources from a list of cats"""

        sources = []
        for cat in coerce_to_list(cats):
            sources.extend([entry for entry in cat._entries.values() if entry._container != 'catalog'])
        self.items = sources