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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 thread(self):
 """ Start a thread for this consumer. """

        log.info('@{}.thread starting'.format(self.__class__.__name__))
        thread = threading.Thread(target=thread_wrapper(self.consume), args=())
        thread.daemon = True
        thread.start()