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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 _sign(self, signer: Signer) -> Signature: """Internal function for the overall `sign` function of `RequestMonitoring`. """

        # Important: we don't write the signature to `.signature`
        data = self._data_to_sign()
        return signer.sign(data)