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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_params(url, ignore_empty=False):
 """ Static method that parses a given `url` and retrieves `url`'s parameters. Could also ignore empty value parameters. Handles parameters-only urls as `q=banana&peel=false`. :param str url: url to parse :param bool ignore_empty: ignore empty value parameter or not :return: dictionary of params and their values :rtype: dict """

        try:
            params_start_index = url.index('?')
        except ValueError:
            params_start_index = 0
        params_string = url[params_start_index + 1:]

        params_dict = {}
        for pair in params_string.split('&'):
            if not pair:
                continue
            splitted = pair.split('=')
            param, value = splitted
            if not value and ignore_empty:
                continue
            value = int(value) if value.isdigit() else value
            params_dict[param] = value
        return params_dict