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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_edu_text(text_subtree):
 """return the text of the given EDU subtree"""

    assert text_subtree.label() == SubtreeType.text
    return u' '.join(word.decode('utf-8') for word in text_subtree.leaves())