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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 mget_list(item, index):
    'get mulitple items via index of int, slice or list'
    if isinstance(index, (int, slice)):
        return item[index]
    else:
        return map(item.__getitem__, index)