X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/mediawiki_dump_tools.git/blobdiff_plain/556285b198db65f81f3fbd9d5eec59e94c2720a0..7e6cd5b38610e0c1df5c8764e2527135a7ede38f:/wikiq

diff --git a/wikiq b/wikiq
index 4a5c129..2c1ef38 100755
--- a/wikiq
+++ b/wikiq
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class RegexPair(object):
         if self.has_groups:
 
             # if there are matches of some sort in this revision content, fill the lists for each cap_group
-            if self.pattern.search(content) is not None:
+            if content is not None and self.pattern.search(content) is not None:
                 m = self.pattern.finditer(content)
                 matchobjects = list(m)
 
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class RegexPair(object):
         # there are no capture groups, we just search for all the matches of the regex
         else:
             #given that there are matches to be made
-            if self.pattern.search(content) is not None:
+            if content is not None and self.pattern.search(content) is not None:
                 m = self.pattern.findall(content)
                 temp_dict[self.label] = ', '.join(m)
             else: