mercurial/templater.py

--- a/mercurial/templater.py	Thu Sep 24 01:04:10 2015 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/templater.py	Thu Sep 24 01:04:58 2015 -0700
@@ -792,8 +792,10 @@
     filter uses function to transform value. syntax is
     {key|filter1|filter2|...}.'''
 
-    def __init__(self, loader, filters={}, defaults={}):
+    def __init__(self, loader, filters=None, defaults={}):
         self._loader = loader
+        if filters is None:
+            filters = {}
         self._filters = filters
         self._defaults = defaults
         self._cache = {}