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It is faster to create the dict with the first value than creating and adding.

python -mtimeit "issue = {}; issue['action'] = 'opened'; issue['title'] = 'foo'"
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.135 usec per loop

python -mtimeit "issue = {'action': 'opened'}; issue['title'] = 'foo'" 
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.111 usec per loop
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