Mythexport error in MCC startup

Users get the following during MCC startup due to python2 vs python3 differences.

daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ mythbuntu-control-centre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

below is a GUI popup:

 Exception in captureState of plugin MythExport

and then after closing the popup:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1116, in _unify_values
    sectiondict = self._sections[section]
KeyError: 'cfg'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mythbuntu-control-centre", line 377, in refreshState
    plugin.captureState()
  File "/usr/share/mythbuntu/plugins/python/mythexport.py", line 53, in captureState
    self.changes['dir'] = self.config.get("cfg", "dir")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 754, in get
    d = self._unify_values(section, vars)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1119, in _unify_values
    raise NoSectionError(section)
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'cfg'