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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 blocking(func, *args, **kwargs):
 """Run a function that uses blocking IO. The function is run in the IO thread pool. """

    pool = get_io_pool()
    fut = pool.submit(func, *args, **kwargs)
    return fut.result()