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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 connect(self, host, port):
        '''
        Connect to a host and port.
        '''
        # Clear the connect state immediately since we're no longer connected
        # at this point.
        self._connected = False

        # Only after the socket has connected do we clear this state; closed
        # must be False so that writes can be buffered in writePacket(). The
        # closed state might have been set to True due to a socket error or a
        # redirect.
        self._host = "%s:%d" % (host, port)
        self._closed = False
        self._close_info = {
            'reply_code': 0,
            'reply_text': 'failed to connect to %s' % (self._host),
            'class_id': 0,
            'method_id': 0
        }

        self._transport.connect((host, port))
        self._transport.write(PROTOCOL_HEADER)

        self._last_octet_time = time.time()

        if self._synchronous_connect:
            # Have to queue this callback just after connect, it can't go
            # into the constructor because the channel needs to be
            # "always there" for frame processing, but the synchronous
            # callback can't be added until after the protocol header has
            # been written. This SHOULD be registered before the protocol
            # header is written, in the case where the header bytes are
            # written, but this thread/greenlet/context does not return until
            # after another thread/greenlet/context has read and processed the
            # recv_start frame. Without more re-write to add_sync_cb though,
            # it will block on reading responses that will never arrive
            # because the protocol header isn't written yet. TBD if needs
            # refactoring. Could encapsulate entirely here, wherein
            # read_frames exits if protocol header not yet written. Like other
            # synchronous behaviors, adding this callback will result in a
            # blocking frame read and process loop until _recv_start and any
            # subsequent synchronous callbacks have been processed. In the
            # event that this is /not/ a synchronous transport, but the
            # caller wants the connect to be synchronous so as to ensure that
            # the connection is ready, then do a read frame loop here.
            self._channels[0].add_synchronous_cb(self._channels[0]._recv_start)
            while not self._connected:
                self.read_frames()