Better processing of configuration file parameters.

- Do `abspath`+`expanduser` on the configuration file path before
  checking if it exists.

- If the path doesn't exist, but the user explicitly passed a
  configuration file, then copy/create the default configuration
  under the specified directory.

platypush/config/__init__.py

@@ -106,10 +106,11 @@ class Config:
         if cfgfile is None:
             cfgfile = self._get_default_cfgfile()
 
+        cfgfile = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(cfgfile))
         if cfgfile is None or not os.path.exists(cfgfile):
-            cfgfile = self._create_default_config()
+            cfgfile = self._create_default_config(cfgfile)
 
-        self.config_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(cfgfile))
+        self.config_file = cfgfile
 
     def _init_logging(self):
         logging_config = {
@@ -211,8 +212,11 @@ class Config:
             'variable': {},
         }
 
-    def _create_default_config(self):
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_default_config(cfgfile: Optional[str] = None):
         cfg_mod_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+
+        if not cfgfile:
             # Use /etc/platypush/config.yaml if the user is running as root,
             # otherwise ~/.config/platypush/config.yaml
             cfgfile = (
@@ -526,6 +530,7 @@ class Config:
         Get a config value or the whole configuration object.
 
         :param key: Configuration entry to get (default: all entries).
+        :param default: Default value to return if the key is missing.
         """
         # pylint: disable=protected-access
         config = cls._get_instance()._config.copy()