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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(self, id, param):
 """ Returns the value of a configuration parameter. """

        assert isinstance(id, basestring)
        assert isinstance(param, basestring)
        return self.params_.get(param, {}).get(id)