Adding an option to ConfigBase.__call__ to preserve implicit values

[jsiirola]

Summary/Motivation:

When using ConfigBlocks for configuring complex objects (like solvers in Pyomo), it becomes convenient to create temporary ConfigBlocks for holding transient options. We do that by calling the ConfigBlock. The catch is that if the block permits implicit keys, then we will want to preserve those implicit keys.

This PR adds a new option to __call__ to cause the copy to preserve all implicitly-defined keys.

Changes proposed in this PR:

• add preserve_implicit option to ConfigBase.__call__()

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[coveralls]

Coverage increased (+0.004%) to 64.004% when pulling f910407ce9179d5073b2cdbf3ad9a71f4436dcd3 on configblock-implicit-duplication into ea05379025a56c6c7b45ddfbd090cc83d5e80ffc on master.

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #45 into master will increase coverage by 0.01%. The diff coverage is 100%.

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+ Hits         5665     5667       +2     
+ Misses       3060     3059       -1

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
pyutilib/misc/config.py	94.96% <100%> (ø)	:arrow_up:
pyutilib/misc/comparison.py	88.56% <0%> (+0.36%)	:arrow_up:

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