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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 getDevType(self, dev):
 """Returns type of device dev. @return: Device type as string. """

        if self._devClassTree is None:
            self._initDevClasses()
        return self._mapDevType.get(dev)