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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 FromPublicKey(cls, public_key):
 """An alternate constructor which generates a new client id."""

    # Our CN will be the first 64 bits of the hash of the public key
    # in MPI format - the length of the key in 4 bytes + the key
    # prefixed with a 0. This weird format is an artifact from the way
    # M2Crypto handled this, we have to live with it for now.
    n = public_key.GetN()
    raw_n = binascii.unhexlify("%x" % n)

    mpi_format = struct.pack(">i", len(raw_n) + 1) + b"\x00" + raw_n

    digest = binascii.hexlify(hashlib.sha256(mpi_format).digest()[:8])
    return cls("C.{}".format(digest.decode("ascii")))