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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 dump_conf(self, conf=None):
 """ Dump settings to an rc config file Parameters conf configparser.ConfigParser() object Returns ------- None """

        if conf is None:
            conf = configparser.ConfigParser()

        tab = self.__class__.__name__

        conf[tab] = {}

        for key, val in self.__dict__.items():
            if key.endswith('_alt'):
                continue
            conf[tab][key] = str(val)

        return conf