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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 sink(self):
 """Closes the stream with a sink operator."""

        op = Operator(
            _generate_uuid(),
            OpType.Sink,
            "Sink",
            num_instances=self.env.config.parallelism)
        return self.__register(op)