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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_feature_id(self, feature):
 """Return a value identifying the feature."""

        fields = self.feature_identifier.split('.')[1:]
        return functools.reduce(operator.getitem, fields, feature)