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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_updater_in_background(self):
 """ Starts a thread that runs the updater in the background. """

        thread = threading.Thread(target=self.updater_loop())
        thread.daemon = True
        thread.start()