From 147c24154e4315750f7513ca387f4b843bcc85d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:46:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] better defaults for "models"

---
 requests/models.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index c38f379..3a30aa0 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class Request(object):
         #: Dictionary or byte of querystring data to attach to the
         #: :class:`Request <Request>`.
         self.params = None
+        self.params = dict(params or [])
 
         #: True if :class:`Request <Request>` is part of a redirect chain (disables history
         #: and HTTPError storage).
@@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ class Response(object):
         self.request = None
 
         #: A dictionary of Cookies the server sent back.
-        self.cookies = None
+        self.cookies = {}
 
         #: Dictionary of configurations for this request.
         self.config = None
-- 
2.34.1