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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 generate_files_distributed(generator, output_name, output_dir, num_shards=1, max_cases=None, task_id=0):
 """generate_files but with a single writer writing to shard task_id."""

  assert task_id < num_shards
  output_filename = sharded_name(output_name, task_id, num_shards)
  output_file = os.path.join(output_dir, output_filename)
  tf.logging.info("Writing to file %s", output_file)
  writer = tf.python_io.TFRecordWriter(output_file)

  counter = 0
  for case in generator:
    if counter % 100000 == 0:
      tf.logging.info("Generating case %d for %s." % (counter, output_name))
    counter += 1
    if max_cases and counter > max_cases:
      break
    example = to_example(case)
    writer.write(example.SerializeToString())

  writer.close()
  return output_file