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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 deserialize_properties(props_struct: struct_pb2.Struct) -> Any: """ Deserializes a protobuf `struct_pb2.Struct` into a Python dictionary containing normal Python types. """

    # Check out this link for details on what sort of types Protobuf is going to generate:
    # https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/python-generated
    #
    # We assume that we are deserializing properties that we got from a Resource RPC endpoint,
    # which has type `Struct` in our gRPC proto definition.
    if _special_sig_key in props_struct:
        if props_struct[_special_sig_key] == _special_asset_sig:
            # This is an asset. Re-hydrate this object into an Asset.
            if "path" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_file_asset(props_struct["path"])
            if "text" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_string_asset(props_struct["text"])
            if "uri" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_remote_asset(props_struct["uri"])
            raise AssertionError("Invalid asset encountered when unmarshaling resource property")
        elif props_struct[_special_sig_key] == _special_archive_sig:
            # This is an archive. Re-hydrate this object into an Archive.
            if "assets" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_asset_archive(deserialize_property(props_struct["assets"]))
            if "path" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_file_archive(props_struct["path"])
            if "uri" in props_struct:
                return known_types.new_remote_archive(props_struct["uri"])
        elif props_struct[_special_sig_key] == _special_secret_sig:
            raise AssertionError("this version of the Pulumi SDK does not support first-class secrets")

        raise AssertionError("Unrecognized signature when unmarshaling resource property")

    # Struct is duck-typed like a dictionary, so we can iterate over it in the normal ways.
    output = {}
    for k, v in list(props_struct.items()):
        value = deserialize_property(v)
        # We treat values that deserialize to "None" as if they don't exist.
        if value is not None:
            output[k] = value

    return output