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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_token(self, url):
 """ Retrieves a temporary access token """

        # A hack to avoid url-encoding the url, since the authorization service
        # doesn't work with correctly encoded urls

        parsed_url = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
        parsed_url = parsed_url._replace(path='/authorization/api')
        self.url = urlparse.urlunsplit(parsed_url)

        response = self.request(method='GET', url='/v1/token?url=' + url)
        return response.result.text