From 603be7fe2f4628a5ce838fd5b4030a74db6c165f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Rioux <jrioux@lyx.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:42:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * prefs2prefs.py : Don't choke on empty input file.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@39666 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 lib/scripts/prefs2prefs.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/scripts/prefs2prefs.py b/lib/scripts/prefs2prefs.py
index 5bc25c1b14..55ff96abb3 100644
--- a/lib/scripts/prefs2prefs.py
+++ b/lib/scripts/prefs2prefs.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def trim_bom(line):
 
 def read(source):
 	" Read input file and strip lineendings."
-	lines = source.read().splitlines()
+	lines = source.read().splitlines() or ['']
 	lines[0] = trim_bom(lines[0])
 	return lines
 
-- 
2.39.2