# [PATCH] stg mail crashes when there is no patch description

1 messages from 2008-02-28 to 2008-02-28. Participants: Angus Salkeld.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12376

## Angus Salkeld, 2008-02-28 23:14

Subject: [PATCH] stg mail crashes when there is no patch description
Message-ID: <8daa1da0802281514wcaaafc0m436311f0046ba0c@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/8daa1da0802281514wcaaafc0m436311f0046ba0c%40mail.gmail.com

```
stg mail crashes when there is no patch description

The error is:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/stgit/commands/mail.py", line
397, in __build_message
descr = p.get_description().strip()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'

This patch tries to handle this a bit better by setting the description
to "<empty message>" and forcing the edit_patches option on.
---

 stgit/commands/mail.py |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/stgit/commands/mail.py b/stgit/commands/mail.py
index f12d694..63c4b39 100644
--- a/stgit/commands/mail.py
+++ b/stgit/commands/mail.py
@@ -393,7 +393,13 @@ def __build_message(tmpl, patch, patch_nr,
total_nr, msg_id, ref_id, options):
     """
     p = crt_series.get_patch(patch)

-    descr = p.get_description().strip()
+    if p.get_description():
+        descr = p.get_description().strip()
+    else:
+        # provide a place holder and force the edit message option on
+        descr = '<empty message>'
+        options.edit_patches = True
+
     descr_lines = descr.split('\n')

     short_descr = descr_lines[0].rstrip()

```