<｜begin▁of▁sentence｜>### Instruction:
Given an instance of a Shell class, can you check if it supports status messages by detecting the presence of a _status_handler attribute?
### Response:
class Shell:
    def __init__(self):
        self._status_handler = None

    def supports_status_messages(self):
        return hasattr(self, '_status_handler')

# Example usage
my_shell = Shell()
print('Supports status messages:', my_shell.supports_status_messages())
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