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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 active(self):
 """The indices of the active marks."""

        # TODO avoid direct usage of transport object.
        marks = tuple(int(x) for x in transport.ask('MACT').split(','))
        return marks[1:]