* Removed type coercion. Options created by argparse are already coerced
to the correct type.
* Removed fallback default values. Options created by argparse already
have a default value.
* Used direct indexing. Options created by argparse are always set. This
eliminates the need to use dict.get().
This is the result of Christopher Medrela's 2013 Summer of Code project.
Thanks also to Preston Holmes, Tim Graham, Anssi Kääriäinen, Florian
Apolloner, and Alex Gaynor for review notes along the way.
Also: Fixes#8579, fixes#3055, fixes#19844.