# HG changeset patch
# User David M. Carr  <david@carrclan.us>
# Date 1348198259 14400
# Node ID ff5ed1ecd43a8940d2e93cab53ac8187a97c35ea
# Parent  331d611813eca2098fdb75c741cb7f5cc72b6567
formatter: improve implementation of data method

This alternate syntax was proposed by Bryan O'Sullivan in a review of
772b3764d3e8.  I haven't been able to measure any particular performance
difference, but the new syntax is more concise and easier to read.

diff -r 331d611813ec -r ff5ed1ecd43a mercurial/formatter.py
--- a/mercurial/formatter.py	Wed Sep 19 09:38:51 2012 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/formatter.py	Thu Sep 20 23:30:59 2012 -0400
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
         self._item = {}
     def data(self, **data):
         '''insert data into item that's not shown in default output'''
-        for k, v in data.iteritems():
-            self._item[k] = v
+        self._item.update(data)
     def write(self, fields, deftext, *fielddata, **opts):
         '''do default text output while assigning data to item'''
         for k, v in zip(fields.split(), fielddata):