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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 initialize_environments(self, batch_size=1):
 """Initializes the environments and trajectories. Subclasses can override this if they don't want a default implementation which initializes `batch_size` environments, but must take care to initialize self._trajectories (this is checked in __init__ anyways). Args: batch_size: (int) Number of `self.base_env_name` envs to initialize. """

    assert batch_size >= 1
    self._batch_size = batch_size

    self._envs = [gym.make(self.base_env_name) for _ in range(batch_size)]
    if self._env_wrapper_fn is not None:
      self._envs = list(map(self._env_wrapper_fn, self._envs))

    # If self.observation_space and self.action_space aren't None, then it means
    # that this is a re-initialization of this class, in that case make sure
    # that this matches our previous behaviour.
    if self._observation_space:
      assert str(self._observation_space) == str(
          self._envs[0].observation_space)
    else:
      # This means that we are initializing this class for the first time.
      #
      # We set this equal to the first env's observation space, later on we'll
      # verify that all envs have the same observation space.
      self._observation_space = self._envs[0].observation_space

    # Similarly for action_space
    if self._action_space:
      assert str(self._action_space) == str(self._envs[0].action_space)
    else:
      self._action_space = self._envs[0].action_space

    self._verify_same_spaces()

    # If self.reward_range is None, i.e. this means that we should take the
    # reward range of the env.
    if self.reward_range is None:
      self._reward_range = self._envs[0].reward_range

    # This data structure stores the history of each env.
    #
    # NOTE: Even if the env is a NN and can step in all batches concurrently, it
    # is still valuable to store the trajectories separately.
    self._trajectories = trajectory.BatchTrajectory(batch_size=batch_size)