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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 cc(self):
 """List of tuples of yearly number of citations for specified years."""

        _years = range(self._start, self._end+1)
        try:
            return list(zip(_years, [d.get('$') for d in self._citeInfoMatrix['cc']]))
        except AttributeError:  # No citations
            return list(zip(_years, [0]*len(_years)))