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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 authenticated_get(username, password, url, verify=True):
 """ Perform an authorized query to the url, and return the result """

    try:
        response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password), verify=verify)
        if response.status_code == 401:
            raise BadCredentialsException(
                "Unable to authenticate user %s to %s with password provided!"
                % (username, url))
    except requests.exceptions.SSLError:
        raise CertificateException("Unable to verify certificate at %s!" % url)
    return response.content