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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 create_manifest(self):
 """ Create a new manifest and write it to disk. """

        self.manifest = {}
        self.manifest['applications'] = [{'name': self.app_name}]
        self.manifest['services'] = []
        self.manifest['env'] = {
                'PREDIXPY_VERSION': str(predix.version),
                }

        self.write_manifest()