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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_colors(self, color_set, alpha, off_color, custom_colors={}):
 """ assign colors according to the surface energies of on_wulff facets. return: (color_list, color_proxy, color_proxy_on_wulff, miller_on_wulff, e_surf_on_wulff_list) """

        import matplotlib as mpl
        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
        color_list = [off_color] * len(self.hkl_list)
        color_proxy_on_wulff = []
        miller_on_wulff = []
        e_surf_on_wulff = [(i, e_surf)
                           for i, e_surf in enumerate(self.e_surf_list)
                           if self.on_wulff[i]]

        c_map = plt.get_cmap(color_set)
        e_surf_on_wulff.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=False)
        e_surf_on_wulff_list = [x[1] for x in e_surf_on_wulff]
        if len(e_surf_on_wulff) > 1:
            cnorm = mpl.colors.Normalize(vmin=min(e_surf_on_wulff_list),
                                         vmax=max(e_surf_on_wulff_list))
        else:
            # if there is only one hkl on wulff, choose the color of the median
            cnorm = mpl.colors.Normalize(vmin=min(e_surf_on_wulff_list) - 0.1,
                                         vmax=max(e_surf_on_wulff_list) + 0.1)
        scalar_map = mpl.cm.ScalarMappable(norm=cnorm, cmap=c_map)

        for i, e_surf in e_surf_on_wulff:
            color_list[i] = scalar_map.to_rgba(e_surf, alpha=alpha)
            if tuple(self.miller_list[i]) in custom_colors.keys():
                color_list[i] = custom_colors[tuple(self.miller_list[i])]
            color_proxy_on_wulff.append(
                plt.Rectangle((2, 2), 1, 1, fc=color_list[i], alpha=alpha))
            miller_on_wulff.append(self.input_miller_fig[i])
        scalar_map.set_array([x[1] for x in e_surf_on_wulff])
        color_proxy = [plt.Rectangle((2, 2), 1, 1, fc=x, alpha=alpha)
                       for x in color_list]

        return color_list, color_proxy, color_proxy_on_wulff, miller_on_wulff, \
            e_surf_on_wulff_list