From 305de4d2bbf9526ffbf94fdcb04b9687d676095b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Thompson <ross.thompson@statcan.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:07:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [#2746] Simplify test for empty or missing value in
 markdown_extract

---
 ckan/lib/helpers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ckan/lib/helpers.py b/ckan/lib/helpers.py
index 3c4477e7163..bf42584359c 100644
--- a/ckan/lib/helpers.py
+++ b/ckan/lib/helpers.py
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ def markdown_extract(text, extract_length=190):
     ''' return the plain text representation of markdown encoded text.  That
     is the texted without any html tags.  If extract_length is 0 then it
     will not be truncated.'''
-    if (text is None) or (text.strip() == ''):
+    if not text:
         return ''
     plain = RE_MD_HTML_TAGS.sub('', markdown(text))
     if not extract_length or len(plain) < extract_length: