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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_uid(value):
 """Takes a brain or object and returns a valid UID. In this case, the object may come from portal_archivist, so we will need to do a catalog query to get the UID of the current version """

    if not value:
        return ''
    # Is value a brain?
    if ICatalogBrain.providedBy(value):
        value = value.getObject()
    # validate UID
    uid = value.UID()
    uc = get_tool('uid_catalog')
    if uc(UID=uid):
        # The object is valid
        return uid
    # Otherwise the object is an old version
    brains = uc(portal_type=value.portal_type, Title=value.Title())
    if not brains:
        # Cannot find UID
        raise RuntimeError('The UID for %s/%s cannot be found!' %
                           (value.portal_type, value.Title()))
    if len(brains) > 1:
        # Found multiple objects, this is a failure
        raise RuntimeError('Searching for %s/%s returned multiple objects.' %
                           (value.portal_type, value.Title()))
    return brains[0].UID