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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 runMkdir(self, _dir, **kwargs):
 """ create a directory and its parents"""

        return self.runRemoteCommand('mkdir', {'dir': _dir,
                                               'logEnviron': self.logEnviron, },
                                     **kwargs)