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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 wait(self, timeout=None):
 """ Waits until the cast device is ready for communication. The device is ready as soon a status message has been received. If the worker thread is not already running, it will be started. If the status has already been received then the method returns immediately. :param timeout: a floating point number specifying a timeout for the operation in seconds (or fractions thereof). Or None to block forever. """

        if not self.socket_client.isAlive():
            self.socket_client.start()
        self.status_event.wait(timeout=timeout)