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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 insert_recording(hw):
 """Insert recording `hw` into database."""

    mysql = utils.get_mysql_cfg()
    connection = pymysql.connect(host=mysql['host'],
                                 user=mysql['user'],
                                 passwd=mysql['passwd'],
                                 db=mysql['db'],
                                 charset='utf8mb4',
                                 cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor)
    try:
        cursor = connection.cursor()
        sql = ("INSERT INTO `wm_raw_draw_data` ("
               "`user_id`, "
               "`data`, "
               "`md5data`, "
               "`creation_date`, "
               "`device_type`, "
               "`accepted_formula_id`, "
               "`secret`, "
               "`ip`, "
               "`segmentation`, "
               "`internal_id`, "
               "`description` "
               ") VALUES (%s, %s, MD5(data), "
               "%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s);")
        data = (hw.user_id,
                hw.raw_data_json,
                getattr(hw, 'creation_date', None),
                getattr(hw, 'device_type', ''),
                getattr(hw, 'formula_id', None),
                getattr(hw, 'secret', ''),
                getattr(hw, 'ip', None),
                str(getattr(hw, 'segmentation', '')),
                getattr(hw, 'internal_id', ''),
                getattr(hw, 'description', ''))
        cursor.execute(sql, data)
        connection.commit()
        for symbol_id, strokes in zip(hw.symbol_stream, hw.segmentation):
            insert_symbol_mapping(cursor.lastrowid,
                                  symbol_id,
                                  hw.user_id,
                                  strokes)
        logging.info("Insert raw data.")
    except pymysql.err.IntegrityError as e:
        print("Error: {} (can probably be ignored)".format(e))