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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_specs(self,data):
 """ takes a magic format file and returns a list of unique specimen names """

    # sort the specimen names
    #
#        print "calling get_specs()"
        speclist=[]
        for rec in data:
          spec=rec["er_specimen_name"]
          if spec not in speclist:speclist.append(spec)
        speclist.sort()
        #print speclist
        return speclist