`TypeError: option values must be strings` when parsing configuration file

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Config file parsing seems to be broken, here's how it fails with the livetest example.

$ python3 livetest.py livetest-sample.ini 
livetest.py:11: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "livetest.py", line 1096, in <module>
    main()
  File "livetest.py", line 1069, in main
    host_config = parse_argv()
  File "livetest.py", line 1055, in parse_argv
    host_config = parse_config_file(ini_path)
  File "/home/user/dev/imapclient/imapclient/config.py", line 47, in parse_config_file
    parser = SafeConfigParser(get_string_config_defaults())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 1225, in __init__
    super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 638, in __init__
    self._read_defaults(defaults)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 1216, in _read_defaults
    self.read_dict({self.default_section: defaults})
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 753, in read_dict
    self.set(section, key, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 1197, in set
    self._validate_value_types(option=option, value=value)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 1182, in _validate_value_types
    raise TypeError("option values must be strings")
TypeError: option values must be strings