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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 logger_init(level):
 """ Initialize the logger for this thread. Sets the log level to ERROR (0), WARNING (1), INFO (2), or DEBUG (3), depending on the argument `level`. """

    levellist = [logging.ERROR, logging.WARNING, logging.INFO, logging.DEBUG]
    handler = logging.StreamHandler()
    fmt = ('%(levelname) -10s %(asctime)s %(name) -30s %(funcName) '
           '-35s %(lineno) -5d: %(message)s')
    handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt))
    logger = logging.root
    logger.addHandler(handler)
    logger.setLevel(levellist[level])