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Diffstat (limited to 'python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py index 1c99c7d7..89203a4f 100644 --- a/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py +++ b/python/fatcat_tools/importers/common.py @@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ def clean(thing, force_xml=False): fix_entities = 'auto' if force_xml: fix_entities = True - return ftfy.fix_text(thing, fix_entities=fix_entities).strip() + fixed = ftfy.fix_text(thing, fix_entities=fix_entities).strip() + if not fixed: + # wasn't zero-length before, but is now; return None + return None + return fixed def test_clean(): |