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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_value(self, dictionary):
 """ Given the input dictionary, return the field value. """

        # We override the default field access in order to support
        # lists in HTML forms.
        if html.is_html_input(dictionary):
            return html.parse_html_list(dictionary, prefix=self.field_name)
        return dictionary.get(self.field_name, empty)