From f04f2c50ca6a608e4e314a21dac22459e50483fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "deepsource-autofix[bot]"
 <62050782+deepsource-autofix[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 17:18:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use literal syntax instead of function calls to create data
 structure

---
 contentcuration/contentcuration/viewsets/common.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/viewsets/common.py b/contentcuration/contentcuration/viewsets/common.py
index 2e3d6b5c92..7ea63464b0 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/viewsets/common.py
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/viewsets/common.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def unnest_dict(dictionary):
 class DotPathValueMixin(object):
     def get_value(self, dictionary):
         # get just field name
-        value = dictionary.get(self.field_name, dict())
+        value = dictionary.get(self.field_name, {})
 
         if value is None:
             return empty