def release(self):
        """Flush changes and release the configuration write lock. This instance must not be used anymore afterwards.
        In Python 3, it's required to explicitly release locks and flush changes, as __del__ is not called
        deterministically anymore."""
        # checking for the lock here makes sure we do not raise during write()
        # in case an invalid parser was created who could not get a lock
        if self.read_only or (self._lock and not self._lock._has_lock()):
            return

        try:
            try:
                self.write()
            except __HOLE__:
                log.error("Exception during destruction of GitConfigParser", exc_info=True)
            except ReferenceError:
                # This happens in PY3 ... and usually means that some state cannot be written
                # as the sections dict cannot be iterated
                # Usually when shutting down the interpreter, don'y know how to fix this
                pass
        finally:
            self._lock._release_lock()
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