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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_config_value(config_file, section, variable):
 """ extracts a config file value """

    try:
        parser = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
        parser.read(config_file)
        return parser.get(section, variable)
    except:
        return None