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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_constraint_slack(self, name):
 """Get the value of the slack variable of a constraint."""

        if self._slacks is None:
            return None
        else:
            index = self._get_constraint_index(name)
            return self._slacks[index]