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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 request_access_token(self, params):
 """ Foursquare does not accept POST requests to retrieve an access token, so we'll be doing a GET request instead. """

        return self.request(self.access_token_url, method="GET", params=params)