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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_ip_public(self, queue_target, url, json=False, key=None):
 """Request the url service and put the result in the queue_target."""

        try:
            response = urlopen(url, timeout=self.timeout).read().decode('utf-8')
        except Exception as e:
            logger.debug("IP plugin - Cannot open URL {} ({})".format(url, e))
            queue_target.put(None)
        else:
            # Request depend on service
            try:
                if not json:
                    queue_target.put(response)
                else:
                    queue_target.put(loads(response)[key])
            except ValueError:
                queue_target.put(None)