class_docstr: Handles metadata supplied in configuration files.
class_docstr_tok: ["Handles","metadata","supplied","in","configuration","files","."]
docstr: Represents value as a dict.
  
  :param value:
  :rtype: dict
docstr_tok: ["Represents","value","as","a","dict",".",":","param","value",":",":","rtype",":","dict"]
code: def _parse_dict(cls, value):
      """Represents value as a dict.
  
      :param value:
      :rtype: dict
      """
      separator = "="
      result = {}
      for line in cls._parse_list(value):
          key, sep, val = line.partition(separator)
          if sep != separator:
              raise DistutilsOptionError(
                  "Unable to parse option value to dict: %s" % value
              )
          result[key.strip()] = val.strip()
  
      return result
  
imports: from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
  import io
  import os
  import sys
  import warnings
  import functools
  from collections import defaultdict
  from functools import partial
  from functools import wraps
  from importlib import import_module
  from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError, DistutilsFileError
  from setuptools.extern.packaging.version import LegacyVersion, parse
  from setuptools.extern.packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet
  from setuptools.extern.six import string_types, PY3
label_desc: Use image node_id 5 for calling the ConfigHandler obj's underlying member method code with example usage: obj._parse_dict(cls, value) and returns: result