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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 _get_syslog_format(event_type):
 """Take an event type argument and return a python logging format In order to properly format the syslog messages to current standard, load the template and perform necessary replacements and return the string. Args: event_type (str):
 Event type name Returns: `str` """

    syslog_format_template = get_template('syslog_format.json')
    fmt = syslog_format_template.render(
        event_type=event_type,
        host=dbconfig.get('instance_name', default='local')
    )

    # Load and redump string, to get rid of any extraneous whitespaces
    return json.dumps(json.loads(fmt))