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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_configuration(self, scaling_group):
 """ Returns the scaling group's configuration in a dictionary. """

        uri = "/%s/%s/config" % (self.uri_base, utils.get_id(scaling_group))
        resp, resp_body = self.api.method_get(uri)
        return resp_body.get("groupConfiguration")