# HG changeset patch
# User Raphaël Gomès <rgomes@octobus.net>
# Date 2019-08-02 14:14:00
# Node ID 5e296f618920911dbd77ef0c40b96a7a3397c89b
# Parent  f95b59ffc307c4549d9640a81d750a99bd75f423

byteify-strings: simplify default value for `--treat-as-kwargs`

diff --git a/contrib/byteify-strings.py b/contrib/byteify-strings.py
--- a/contrib/byteify-strings.py
+++ b/contrib/byteify-strings.py
@@ -276,15 +276,13 @@ def main():
                     help='edit files in place')
     ap.add_argument('--dictiter', action='store_true', default=False,
                     help='rewrite iteritems() and itervalues()'),
-    ap.add_argument('--treat-as-kwargs', nargs="+",
+    ap.add_argument('--treat-as-kwargs', nargs="+", default=[],
                     help="ignore kwargs-like objects"),
     ap.add_argument('files', metavar='FILE', nargs='+', help='source file')
     args = ap.parse_args()
     opts = {
         'dictiter': args.dictiter,
-        'treat-as-kwargs': set(
-            args.treat_as_kwargs
-        ) if args.treat_as_kwargs else set()
+        'treat-as-kwargs': set(args.treat_as_kwargs),
     }
     for fname in args.files:
         if args.inplace: