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### deep_flatten
Deep flattens a list.
Use recursion. Use `list.extend()` with an empty array (`result`) and the spread function to flatten a list. Recursively flatten each element that is a list.
```python
def spread(arg):
ret = []
for i in arg:
if isinstance(i, list):
ret.extend(i)
else:
ret.append(i)
return ret
def deep_flatten(arr):
result = []
result.extend(
spread(list(map(lambda x: deep(x) if type(x) == list else x, arr))))
return result
```
```python
deep_flatten([1, [2], [[3], 4], 5]) # [1,2,3,4,5]
```