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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 close(self):
 """ Close the current connection and terminate the agent Should be called manually """

        if hasattr(self, "thread"):
            self.thread._exit = True
            self.thread.join(1000)
        if self._conn is not None:
            self._conn.close()