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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):
 """Purges the buffer and commits all pending values into the estimator."""

        self._buffer.sort()
        self._replace_batch()
        self._buffer = []
        self._compress()