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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 _drop_empty_props(self, item):
 """Remove properties with empty strings from nested dicts. """

        if isinstance(item, list):
            return [self._drop_empty_props(i) for i in item]
        if isinstance(item, dict):
            return {
                k: self._drop_empty_props(v)
                for k, v in item.items() if v != ''
            }
        return item