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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_command(self, command, *args):
 """Execute the state transition command."""

        try:
            command(*args)
        except libvirt.libvirtError as error:
            raise RuntimeError("Unable to execute command. %s" % error)