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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 _storage_init(self):
 """ Ensure that storage is initialized. """

        if not self._storage.initialized:
            self._storage.init(self._module._py3_wrapper, self._is_python_2)