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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 emit(self, record):
 """Send a LogRecord to the callback function, after preparing it for serialization."""

        try:
            self._callback(self.prepare(record))
        except Exception:
            self.handleError(record)