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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 _configure_manager(self):
 """ Creates a manager to handle autoscale operations. """

        self._manager = ScalingGroupManager(self,
                resource_class=ScalingGroup, response_key="group",
                uri_base="groups")