Ultimately it probably doesn't have a safe .get method because a dict is an associative collection (values are associated with names) where it is inefficient to check if a key is present (and return its value) without throwing an exception, while it is super trivial to avoid exceptions accessing list elements (as the len method is very fast). The .get method allows you to query the value ... So, I've come up with a simpler script that returns all the GET parameters in a single object.

Understanding the Context

You should call it just once, assign the result to a variable and then, at any point in the future, get any value you want from that variable using the appropriate key. Non-data descriptors, instance and class methods, get their implicit first arguments (usually named self and cls, respectively) from their non-data descriptor method, __get__ - and this is how static methods know not to have an implicit first argument.