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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 _parse_config_buffer(self, fbuffer):
 """ Parse buffered chunk of config into dict """

        if len(fbuffer) < 1 or not fbuffer[0].endswith("{"):
            # Invalid input
            return {}

        entity = {}
        entity_type = fbuffer.pop(0)
        entity_type = entity_type.rstrip("{")
        entity["_type"] = self._trim(entity_type)
        for chunk in fbuffer:
            splitted = chunk.split("=")
            if len(splitted) < 2:
                # If there is no '=', then it's an invalid line
                continue

            key = self._trim(splitted[0])
            value = self._trim("=".join(splitted[1:]))
            entity[key] = value

        return entity