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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 client(self, service_name, version, component, **kw):
 """Safely initialize a repository class to a property. Args: repository_class (class):
 The class to initialize. version (str):
 The gcp service version for the repository. Returns: object: An instance of repository_class. """

        service = _create_service_api(
            self._credentials,
            service_name,
            version,
            kw.get('developer_key'),
            kw.get('cache_discovery', False),
            self._http or _build_http())

        return ServiceClient(
            gcp_service=service,
            component=component,
            credentials=self._credentials,
            rate_limiter=self._rate_limiter,
            use_cached_http=self._use_cached_http,
            http=self._http)