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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 process_regex(self, key):
 """ Extract the value of key from dictionary if available and process it as a python regex """

        return re.compile(self.output_dict[key]) if \
            key in self.output_dict else None