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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 run(self, cmd):
 """Runs the appropriate command"""

        print datetime.datetime.now()
        output = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
        output = output.communicate()[0]
        print output