it is sometimes simple and easy to just keep the options
in the file, right at the top.
One thing I (think I) have used is to collect
the options in a dictionary, then put all the defaults in
another dictionary. Then you can use 'dict dict copy' to
replace the defaults with any definitions in the new dict
and use the resulting dict.
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