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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 COOKIES(self):
 """ Cookie information parsed into a dictionary. Secure cookies are NOT decoded automatically. See Request.get_cookie() for details. """

        if self._COOKIES is None:
            raw_dict = SimpleCookie(self.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE',''))
            self._COOKIES = {}
            for cookie in raw_dict.itervalues():
                self._COOKIES[cookie.key] = cookie.value
        return self._COOKIES