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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_option_as_list(self, optionname, delimiter=",", default=None):
        '''Will try to return the option as a list separated by the
        delimiter.
        '''
        option = self.get_option(optionname)
        try:
            opt_list = [opt.strip() for opt in option.split(delimiter)]
            return list(filter(None, opt_list))
        except Exception:
            return default