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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(self, uri, params={}):
        '''A generic method to make GET requests'''
        logging.debug("Requesting URL: "+str(urlparse.urljoin(self.BASE_URL, uri)))
        return requests.get(urlparse.urljoin(self.BASE_URL, uri),
            params=params, verify=False,
            auth=self.auth)