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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 execute(self, statement, *args, **kwargs):
 """ This convenience method will execute the query passed in as is. For more complex functionality you may want to use the sqlalchemy engine directly, but this serves as an example implementation. :param select_query: SQL statement to execute that will identify the resultset of interest. """

        with self.engine.connect() as conn:
            s = sqlalchemy.sql.text(statement)
            return conn.execute(s, **kwargs)