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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 _make_path(self, path, name):
 """ Makes directories as needed """

        if not os.path.exists(path):
            os.mkdirs(path)

        if os.path.isdir(path) :
            return os.path.join(path, name)

        return path