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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 _tag_ec2(self, conn, role):
 """ tag the current EC2 instance with a cluster role """

        tags = {'Role': role}
        conn.create_tags([self.instance_id], tags)