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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_nowait(self, n: int) -> bytes: """ Read not more than n bytes, or whole buffer is n == -1 """

        chunks = []

        while self._buffer:
            chunk = self._read_nowait_chunk(n)
            chunks.append(chunk)
            if n != -1:
                n -= len(chunk)
                if n == 0:
                    break

        return b''.join(chunks) if chunks else b''