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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 comments(self, message_id):
 """ Return the list of comments associated with the specified message. """

        path = '/msg/comments/%u' % message_id
        req = ET.Element('request')
        return self._request(path, req)