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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 connect( self, host: str = '127.0.0.1', port: int = 7497, clientId: int = 1, timeout: float = 2):
 """ Connect to a running TWS or IB gateway application. After the connection is made the client is fully synchronized and ready to serve requests. This method is blocking. Args: host: Host name or IP address. port: Port number. clientId: ID number to use for this client; must be unique per connection. Setting clientId=0 will automatically merge manual TWS trading with this client. timeout: If establishing the connection takes longer than ``timeout`` seconds then the ``asyncio.TimeoutError`` exception is raised. Set to 0 to disable timeout. """

        return self._run(self.connectAsync(host, port, clientId, timeout))