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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 get_status(dev, recipient = None):
 r"""Return the status for the specified recipient. dev is the Device object to which the request will be sent to. The recipient can be None (on which the status will be queried from the device), an Interface or Endpoint descriptors. The status value is returned as an integer with the lower word being the two bytes status value. """

    bmRequestType, wIndex = _parse_recipient(recipient, util.CTRL_IN)
    ret = dev.ctrl_transfer(bmRequestType = bmRequestType,
                            bRequest = 0x00,
                            wIndex = wIndex,
                            data_or_wLength = 2)
    return ret[0] | (ret[1] << 8)