Made the same changes to the module-level render method.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pystache/__init__.py b/pystache/__init__.py
index 913dc61..bb832b8 100644
--- a/pystache/__init__.py
+++ b/pystache/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from pystache.template import Template
 from pystache.view import View
 
-def render(template, context={}, **kwargs):
-    context = context.copy()
-    for key in kwargs:
-        context[key] = kwargs[key]
+def render(template, context=None, **kwargs):
+    context = context and context.copy() or {}
+    context.update(kwargs)
     return Template(template, context).render()