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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 start_event_stream(self):
 """ Start streaming events from `gerrit stream-events`. """

        if not self._stream:
            self._stream = GerritStream(self, ssh_client=self._ssh_client)
            self._stream.start()