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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_fullpath(self, filepath):
 """Return filepath with the base_path prefixed """

        if filepath[0] == '/':
            return filepath
        return os.path.join(self._base_path, filepath)