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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 connect(cls, resource):
 """Connect to this Region's endpoint. Returns a connection object pointing to the endpoint associated to the received resource. """

        import boto
        return boto.s3.connect_to_region(cls.get_region(resource))