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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 flush(self):
 """Flush the stream. In contrast to StreamHandler, errors are not caught so the program doesn't iterate through tons of logging errors e.g. in case of a broken pipe."""

        # See /usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py, StreamHander.flush()
        self.acquire()
        try:
            if self.stream and hasattr(self.stream, "flush"):
                self.stream.flush()
        except IOError as e:
            if self.abortOnIOError:
                sys.exit('IOError: %s' % e)
            else:
                raise e
        finally:
            self.release()