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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 seq_md5(seq, normalize=True):
 """returns unicode md5 as hex digest for sequence `seq`. 'd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' 'f1f8f4bf413b16ad135722aa4591043e' 'f1f8f4bf413b16ad135722aa4591043e' 'f1f8f4bf413b16ad135722aa4591043e' 'f1f8f4bf413b16ad135722aa4591043e' 'db516c3913e179338b162b2476d1c23f' """

    seq = normalize_sequence(seq) if normalize else seq
    bseq = seq.encode("ascii")
    return hashlib.md5(bseq).hexdigest()