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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 log_message(self, kind, alert):
 """Parses different event types and passes them to logging"""

        if kind == 'ERROR':
            logging.error(alert)
        else:
            logging.warning(alert)
        return