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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 begin(self, *args, **kwargs):
 """Indicate the beginning of a transaction. During a transaction, connections won't be transparently replaced, and all errors will be raised to the application. If the underlying driver supports this method, it will be called with the given parameters (e.g. for distributed transactions). """

        self._transaction = True
        try:
            begin = self._con.begin
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        else:
            begin(*args, **kwargs)