Fixed issue with global search when description field is empty

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/gsearch.py b/wqflask/wqflask/gsearch.py
index 3d9b508a..04e3d578 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/gsearch.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/gsearch.py
@@ -75,7 +75,10 @@ class GSearch(object):
                     this_trait['group'] = line[1]
                     this_trait['tissue'] = line[2]
                     this_trait['symbol'] = line[6]
-                    this_trait['description'] = line[7].decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+                    if line[7]:
+                        this_trait['description'] = line[7].decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+                    else:
+                        this_trait['description'] = "N/A"
                     this_trait['location_repr'] = 'N/A'
                     if (line[8] != "NULL" and line[8] != "") and (line[9] != 0):
                         this_trait['location_repr'] = 'Chr%s: %.6f' % (line[8], float(line[9]))