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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 monitor(self):
 """Commit this batch after sufficient time has elapsed. This simply sleeps for ``self._settings.max_latency`` seconds, and then calls commit unless the batch has already been committed. """

        # NOTE: This blocks; it is up to the calling code to call it
        #       in a separate thread.

        # Sleep for however long we should be waiting.
        time.sleep(self._settings.max_latency)

        _LOGGER.debug("Monitor is waking up")
        return self._commit()