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Given the following text description, write Python code to implement the functionality described below step by step
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Description:
Step1:  battle_tested was originally created to harden your safeties.
In the example below battle_tested is being used to harden a function that is suppose to give you a predictable list of strings so you can continue with your code knowing the input has already been sanitized.
Step2:  Here's an example of what many programmers would consider enough of a test.
Step3:  The above proves it works and is pretty clean and understandable right?
Step5:  And with 2 lines of code, that was proven wrong.
While you could argue that the input of the tests is crazy and would never happen with how you structured your code, lets see how hard it really is to rewrite this function so it actually can reliably act as your input's filter.
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Python Code:
def list_of_strings_v1(iterable):
     converts the iterable input into a list of strings 
    # build the output
    out = [str(i) for i in iterable]
    # validate the output
    for i in out:
        assert type(i) == str
    # return
    return out
Explanation: battle_tested was originally created to harden your safeties.
In the example below battle_tested is being used to harden a function that is suppose to give you a predictable list of strings so you can continue with your code knowing the input has already been sanitized.
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list_of_strings_v1(range(10))
Explanation: Here's an example of what many programmers would consider enough of a test.
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from battle_tested import fuzz
fuzz(list_of_strings_v1)
Explanation: The above proves it works and is pretty clean and understandable right?
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def list_of_strings_v2(iterable):
     converts the iterable input into a list of strings 
    try:
        iter(iterable)
        # build the output
        out = [str(i) for i in iterable]
    except TypeError: # raised when input was not iterable
        out = [str(iterable)]
    # validate the output
    for i in out:
        assert type(i) == str
    # return
    return out
fuzz(list_of_strings_v2)
Explanation: And with 2 lines of code, that was proven wrong.
While you could argue that the input of the tests is crazy and would never happen with how you structured your code, lets see how hard it really is to rewrite this function so it actually can reliably act as your input's filter.
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