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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 profile(self, profile, names, vm_overrides=None, **kwargs):
        '''
        Pass in a profile to create, names is a list of vm names to allocate

            vm_overrides is a special dict that will be per node options
            overrides

        Example:

        .. code-block:: python

            >>> client= salt.cloud.CloudClient(path='/etc/salt/cloud')
            >>> client.profile('do_512_git', names=['minion01',])
            {'minion01': {'backups_active': 'False',
                    'created_at': '2014-09-04T18:10:15Z',
                    'droplet': {'event_id': 31000502,
                                 'id': 2530006,
                                 'image_id': 5140006,
                                 'name': 'minion01',
                                 'size_id': 66},
                    'id': '2530006',
                    'image_id': '5140006',
                    'ip_address': '107.XXX.XXX.XXX',
                    'locked': 'True',
                    'name': 'minion01',
                    'private_ip_address': None,
                    'region_id': '4',
                    'size_id': '66',
                    'status': 'new'}}


        '''
        if not vm_overrides:
            vm_overrides = {}
        kwargs['profile'] = profile
        mapper = salt.cloud.Map(self._opts_defaults(**kwargs))
        if isinstance(names, six.string_types):
            names = names.split(',')
        return salt.utils.data.simple_types_filter(
            mapper.run_profile(profile, names, vm_overrides=vm_overrides)
        )