keepalive: use collections.defaultdict for host map
Cleaning up the code as part of debugging Python 3 issues.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5718
Set up
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
Try to import an empty patch
$ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
abort: stdin: no diffs found
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No dirstate backups are left behind
$ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
.hg/dirstate