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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 _is_container_excluded(self, container):
 """Check if a container is excluded according to the filter rules. Requires _filter_containers to run first. """

        container_name = DockerUtil.container_name_extractor(container)[0]
        return container_name in self._filtered_containers