How to use the pyensembl.ensembl_release_versions.check_release_number function in pyensembl

def normalize_release_properties(ensembl_release, species):
    """
    Make sure a given release is valid, normalize it to be an integer,
    normalize the species name, and get its associated reference.
    """
    ensembl_release = check_release_number(ensembl_release)
    if not isinstance(species, Species):
        species = find_species_by_name(species)
    reference_name = species.which_reference(ensembl_release)
    return ensembl_release, species.latin_name, reference_name

def normalize_init_values(cls, release, species, server):
        """
        Normalizes the arguments which uniquely specify an EnsemblRelease
        genome.
        """
        release = check_release_number(release)
        species = check_species_object(species)
        return (release, species, server)