opinion: configparser should have been better

[Skaperen]

when posts show code that is more complicated i don't make an effort to understand it because i don't want to go more complicated. and this thread was not intended for code help as i already did my little project (a command to add or delete profiles in Firefox on Linux/Posix). i'm just saying, in a way, that "Mapping Protocol Access" should not have been an add-on; it should have been the way it was done from the beginning, along with customizing like the .optionxform attribute. a dict already has ways to do defaults like .get(). i'm sure that if configparser had not existed and i implemented it some other way, i would have been accused of pythonic heresy.