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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 SetStatus(self, status, message="", backtrace=None):
 """Set a status to report back to the server."""

    self.status.status = status
    self.status.error_message = utils.SmartUnicode(message)
    if backtrace:
      self.status.backtrace = utils.SmartUnicode(backtrace)