- use shorter construction
 - don't create new dict if not needed
 - drop extra unpacking key-val arguments
 - drop extra default values

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 python/qemu/machine/machine.py | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/qemu/machine/machine.py b/python/qemu/machine/machine.py
index 971ed7e8c6..5eab31aeec 100644
--- a/python/qemu/machine/machine.py
+++ b/python/qemu/machine/machine.py
@@ -564,14 +564,12 @@ def _qmp(self) -> QEMUMonitorProtocol:
         return self._qmp_connection
 
     @classmethod
-    def _qmp_args(cls, _conv_keys: bool = True, **args: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        qmp_args = dict()
-        for key, value in args.items():
-            if _conv_keys:
-                qmp_args[key.replace('_', '-')] = value
-            else:
-                qmp_args[key] = value
-        return qmp_args
+    def _qmp_args(cls, conv_keys: bool,
+                  args: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, object]:
+        if conv_keys:
+            return {k.replace('_', '-'): v for k, v in args.items()}
+
+        return args
 
     def qmp(self, cmd: str,
             conv_keys: bool = True,
@@ -579,7 +577,7 @@ def qmp(self, cmd: str,
         """
         Invoke a QMP command and return the response dict
         """
-        qmp_args = self._qmp_args(conv_keys, **args)
+        qmp_args = self._qmp_args(conv_keys, args)
         return self._qmp.cmd(cmd, args=qmp_args)
 
     def command(self, cmd: str,
@@ -590,7 +588,7 @@ def command(self, cmd: str,
         On success return the response dict.
         On failure raise an exception.
         """
-        qmp_args = self._qmp_args(conv_keys, **args)
+        qmp_args = self._qmp_args(conv_keys, args)
         return self._qmp.command(cmd, **qmp_args)
 
     def get_qmp_event(self, wait: bool = False) -> Optional[QMPMessage]:
-- 
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