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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 cmd(self, cmd, verbose=False):
 """Executes the specified command on the remote host. The cmd must be format safe, this means { and } must be doubled, thusly: echo /var/local/maildir/{{cur,new}} the cmd can include the format word 'maildir' to be replaced by self.directory. eg: echo {maildir}/{{cur,new}} """

        command = cmd.format(maildir=self.directory)
        if verbose:
            print(command)
        p = Popen([
                "ssh",
                "-T",
                self.host,
                command
                ], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
        stdout,stderr = p.communicate()
        return stdout