Merge pull request #177 from TylerKirby/master

Fixed index error in Latin prosody code
cltk · Mar 7, 2016 · a2e6516 · a2e6516
2 parents c60313e + c178ac9
commit a2e6516
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/cltk/prosody/latin/scanner.py b/cltk/prosody/latin/scanner.py
@@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ def _scansion(self, sentence_syllables):
                     scanned_sent.append('¯')
                 else:
                     scanned_sent.append('˘')
-            del scanned_sent[-1]
-            scanned_sent.append('x')
+            if len(scanned_sent) > 1:
+                del scanned_sent[-1]
+                scanned_sent.append('x')
             scanned_text.append(''.join(scanned_sent))
         return scanned_text