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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_description(status_code):
 """ Get the description for a status code. """

    description = _descriptions.get(status_code)
    if description is None:
        description = 'code = %s (no description)' % str(status_code)
    return description