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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 getenvar(self, envar):
 from os import getenv """Retrieves the value of an environment variable if it exists."""

        if getenv(envar) is not None:
            self._vardict[envar] = getenv(envar)