updated comparison due to pep8 programming recommendations

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/serializers.py b/rest_framework/serializers.py
index f7918c4c..9f4964fa 100644
--- a/rest_framework/serializers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/serializers.py
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ class ModelSerializer(Serializer):
         """
         self.m2m_data = {}
 
-        if instance:
+        if instance is not None:
             for key, val in attrs.items():
                 setattr(instance, key, val)
             return instance