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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 run(self):
 """Start the collector worker thread. If running in standalone mode, the current thread will wait until the collector thread ends. """

        self.collector.start()
        if self.standalone:
            self.collector.join()