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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 _GetSerializedPartitionList(self):
 """Gets the serialized version of the ConsistentRing. Added this helper for the test code. """

        partition_list = list()
        
        for part in self.partitions:
            partition_list.append((part.node, unpack("<L", part.hash_value)[0]))

        return partition_list