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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_hosts(self, host):
 """ Return a list of host_names from host value. """

        try:
            return shlex.split(host)
        except ValueError:
            raise Exception("Unparsable host {}".format(host))