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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 close(self):
 """Flushes the pending events and closes the writer after it is done."""

        self.flush()
        if self._recordio_writer is not None:
            self._recordio_writer.close()
            self._recordio_writer = None