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-rw-r--r--wqflask/utility/type_checking.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py b/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
index 00f14ba9..5e98f4ae 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/type_checking.py
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ def get_int(vars_obj, name, default=None):
 
 def get_string(vars_obj, name, default=None):
     if name in vars_obj:
-        if not vars_obj[name] is None:
+        if not vars_obj[name] is None and not vars_obj[name] == "":
             return str(vars_obj[name])
     return default