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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 flux_expr(self, reaction):
 """Get LP expression representing the reaction flux."""

        if isinstance(reaction, dict):
            return self._v.expr(iteritems(reaction))
        return self._v(reaction)