configparser: BasicInterpolation raises TypeError interpolating a value-less option

[abdoulrasheed]

Bug report

Bug description:

With allow_no_value=True and the default BasicInterpolation, interpolating a reference to a value-less option raises TypeError instead of resolving or raising a configparser error. ExtendedInterpolation treats the missing value as empty in the same situation.

import configparser
cfg = configparser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
cfg.read_string("[s]\na\nb = x%(a)sy\n")
cfg.get("s", "b")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    cfg.get("s", "b")
    ~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
  File "../Lib/configparser.py", line 855, in get
    return self._interpolation.before_get(self, section, option, value,
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                          d)
                                          ^^
  File "../Lib/configparser.py", line 433, in before_get
    self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "../Lib/configparser.py", line 474, in _interpolate_some
    if "%" in v:
      ^^^^^^^^
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not a container or iterable

The same pattern with ExtendedInterpolation (b = x${s:a}y) returns "xy".

ExtendedInterpolation._interpolate_some guards this (if v is None: continue, added in gh-130941); BasicInterpolation._interpolate_some does not and reaches if "%" in v: with v set to None (Lib/configparser.py).

Observed on 3.16.0a0.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Linked PRs

• gh-153855: Fix BasicInterpolation crash on None-valued interpolation reference. #153857