Rewrite unnecessary dict/list/tuple calls as literals

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git/objects/util.py b/git/objects/util.py
index 5c085aec..f630f966 100644
--- a/git/objects/util.py
+++ b/git/objects/util.py
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ def parse_date(string_date):
             offset = utctz_to_altz(offset)
 
             # now figure out the date and time portion - split time
-            date_formats = list()
+            date_formats = []
             splitter = -1
             if ',' in string_date:
                 date_formats.append("%a, %d %b %Y")
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ class Traversable(object):
     into one direction.
     Subclasses only need to implement one function.
     Instances of the Subclass must be hashable"""
-    __slots__ = tuple()
+    __slots__ = ()
 
     @classmethod
     def _get_intermediate_items(cls, item):
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ class Traversable(object):
 class Serializable(object):
 
     """Defines methods to serialize and deserialize objects from and into a data stream"""
-    __slots__ = tuple()
+    __slots__ = ()
 
     def _serialize(self, stream):
         """Serialize the data of this object into the given data stream