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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 transform_value(self, value):
 """Convert the value to be stored. This does nothing by default but subclasses can change this. Then the index will be able to filter on the transformed value. For example if the transform capitalizes some text, the filter would be ``myfield__capitalized__eq='FOO'`` """

        if not self.transform:
            return value

        try:
            # we store a staticmethod but we accept a method taking `self` and `value`
            return self.transform(self, value)
        except TypeError as e:
            if 'argument' in str(e):  # try to limit only to arguments error
                return self.transform(value)