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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 report(self, report_req):
 """Processes a report request. It will aggregate it with prior report_requests to be send later or it will send it immediately if that's appropriate. """

        self.start()

        # no thread running, run the scheduler to ensure any pending
        # flush tasks are executed.
        if self._run_scheduler_directly:
            self._scheduler.run(blocking=False)

        if not self._report_aggregator.report(report_req):
            _logger.debug(u'need to send a report request directly')
            try:
                transport = self._create_transport()
                transport.services.Report(report_req)
            except exceptions.Error:  # only sink apitools errors
                _logger.error(u'direct send for report request failed',
                              exc_info=True)