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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 etag(self, etag):
 """ Set the ETag of the resource. :param etag: the ETag """

        if not isinstance(etag, bytes):
            etag = bytes(etag, "utf-8")
        self._etag.append(etag)