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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 initWithComplexQuery(query):
 """ create a query using a complex event query """

        q = QueryEvents()
        # provided an instance of ComplexEventQuery
        if isinstance(query, ComplexEventQuery):
            q._setVal("query", json.dumps(query.getQuery()))
        # provided query as a string containing the json object
        elif isinstance(query, six.string_types):
            foo = json.loads(query)
            q._setVal("query", query)
        # provided query as a python dict
        elif isinstance(query, dict):
            q._setVal("query", json.dumps(query))
        # unrecognized value provided
        else:
            assert False, "The instance of query parameter was not a ComplexEventQuery, a string or a python dict"
        return q