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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 acknowledge(self, status):
 """Acknowledges the status update. This should only be called once the status update is processed durably by the scheduler. Not that explicit acknowledgements must be requested via the constructor argument, otherwise a call to this method will cause the driver to crash. """

        logging.info('Acknowledges status update {}'.format(status))
        return self.driver.acknowledgeStatusUpdate(encode(status))