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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 get_status(video_id, _connection=None):
 """ Get the status of a video given the ``video_id`` parameter. """

        c = _connection
        if not c:
            c = connection.APIConnection()
        return c.post('get_upload_status', video_id=video_id)