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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 fetch_task_failures(tracking_url):
 """ Uses mechanize to fetch the actual task logs from the task tracker. This is highly opportunistic, and we might not succeed. So we set a low timeout and hope it works. If it does not, it's not the end of the world. TODO: Yarn has a REST API that we should probably use instead: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/WebServicesIntro.html """

    import mechanize
    timeout = 3.0
    failures_url = tracking_url.replace('jobdetails.jsp', 'jobfailures.jsp') + '&cause=failed'
    logger.debug('Fetching data from %s', failures_url)
    b = mechanize.Browser()
    b.open(failures_url, timeout=timeout)
    links = list(b.links(text_regex='Last 4KB'))  # For some reason text_regex='All' doesn't work... no idea why
    links = random.sample(links, min(10, len(links)))  # Fetch a random subset of all failed tasks, so not to be biased towards the early fails
    error_text = []
    for link in links:
        task_url = link.url.replace('&start=-4097', '&start=-100000')  # Increase the offset
        logger.debug('Fetching data from %s', task_url)
        b2 = mechanize.Browser()
        try:
            r = b2.open(task_url, timeout=timeout)
            data = r.read()
        except Exception as e:
            logger.debug('Error fetching data from %s: %s', task_url, e)
            continue
        # Try to get the hex-encoded traceback back from the output
        for exc in re.findall(r'luigi-exc-hex=[0-9a-f]+', data):
            error_text.append('---------- %s:' % task_url)
            error_text.append(exc.split('=')[-1].decode('hex'))

    return '\n'.join(error_text)