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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 read(self):
 """Return a single byte from the output buffer """

        if self._output_buffer:
            b, self._output_buffer = (self._output_buffer[0:1],
                                      self._output_buffer[1:])
            return b

        return b''