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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 progress(self, percent, tag, summary):
 """ Can be overridden or monkey-patched if you want to get progress updates yourself. """


        if self.progress_updates:
            self.progress_updates(percent, tag, summary)