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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 get_role(self, request: Request):
 """ None roles are stored as empty strings, so the role returned as None by this function means that corresponding DID is not stored in a ledger. """

        idr = request.identifier
        return self._get_role(idr)