Message 209294 - Python tracker
The latest patch for zlib seems to be missing Modules/zlibmodule.clinic.c > I suppose that zdict=b'' have same effect as not specifying zdict. Am I right? Probably, but to be on the safe side I'd prefer that we preserve the behavior of not calling deflateSetDictionary/inflateSetDictionary unless the caller explicitly provides zdict. If you need to give a Python default value, rather use None than b''.