lib: query make exclude handling non-destructive

[notmuch] / test / gen-threads.py

diff --git a/test/gen-threads.py b/test/gen-threads.py
index 9fbb8474ab7dd58769c6d91afd19e3790efcbf28..70fb1f687237fb832cb5ac8d33ea151aafb18cd8 100644 (file)
--- a/test/gen-threads.py
+++ b/test/gen-threads.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # argv[1].  Each output line is a thread structure, where the n'th
 # field is either a number giving the parent of message n or "None"
 # for the root.
-
 import sys
 from itertools import chain, combinations
 
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ while queue:
     else:
         # Expand node to_expand[0] with each possible set of children
         for children in subsets(free):
-            ntree = dict(tree, **{child: to_expand[0] for child in children})
+            ntree = {child: to_expand[0] for child in children}
+            ntree.update(tree)
             nfree = free.difference(children)
             queue.append((ntree, nfree, to_expand[1:] + tuple(children)))