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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 _http_get(self, url, query, **kwargs):
 """ Performs the HTTP GET request. """


        self._normalize_query(query)

        kwargs.update({'params': query})

        return self._http_request('get', url, kwargs)