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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 connect_pull(self, timeout=1):
        '''
        Establish a connection with the event pull socket
        Default timeout is 1 s
        '''
        if self.cpush:
            return True

        if self._run_io_loop_sync:
            with salt.utils.asynchronous.current_ioloop(self.io_loop):
                if self.pusher is None:
                    self.pusher = salt.transport.ipc.IPCMessageClient(
                        self.pulluri,
                        io_loop=self.io_loop
                    )
                try:
                    self.io_loop.run_sync(
                        lambda: self.pusher.connect(timeout=timeout))
                    self.cpush = True
                except Exception:
                    pass
        else:
            if self.pusher is None:
                self.pusher = salt.transport.ipc.IPCMessageClient(
                    self.pulluri,
                    io_loop=self.io_loop
                )
            # For the asynchronous case, the connect will be deferred to when
            # fire_event() is invoked.
            self.cpush = True
        return self.cpush