From 4e4726a03dbeb3a60ab11ca2c264ff36c6c8f71a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ekaterina Tuzova <Ekaterina.Tuzova@jetbrains.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:09:03 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] skip authors if no one presented

---
 .../educational/src/com/jetbrains/edu/courseFormat/Course.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/educational/src/com/jetbrains/edu/courseFormat/Course.java b/python/educational/src/com/jetbrains/edu/courseFormat/Course.java
index b7e995d45638..28ef91a7acc6 100644
--- a/python/educational/src/com/jetbrains/edu/courseFormat/Course.java
+++ b/python/educational/src/com/jetbrains/edu/courseFormat/Course.java
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ public class Course {
     this.authors = new ArrayList<CourseInfo.Author>();
     for (String name : authors) {
       final List<String> pair = StringUtil.split(name, " ");
-      this.authors.add(new CourseInfo.Author(pair.get(0), pair.size() > 1 ? pair.get(1) : ""));
+      if (!pair.isEmpty())
+        this.authors.add(new CourseInfo.Author(pair.get(0), pair.size() > 1 ? pair.get(1) : ""));
     }
   }