From 7dda975c059342afe48cb50e20c5ae7e3d3bf5d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry <hjwp2@cantab.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:28:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] handle case where stdout is the empty string

---
 procs.py            | 3 +--
 tests/test_procs.py | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/procs.py b/procs.py
index 867878b..f5a0fd2 100644
--- a/procs.py
+++ b/procs.py
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ class Process(object):
 
     @property
     def stdout(self):
-        if self._stdout:
+        if self._stdout is not None:
             return self._stdout
-        return 'stdout'
 
     @property
     def stderr(self):
diff --git a/tests/test_procs.py b/tests/test_procs.py
index 0d055b4..5ebe897 100644
--- a/tests/test_procs.py
+++ b/tests/test_procs.py
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ def test_single_proc():
     assert ls.stdout == u'file1\nfile2\nfile3\n'
 
 
+def test_empty_output():
+    cat = Process('cat /dev/null')
+    cat.run()
+    assert cat.stdout == u''
+
+
 def test_returncode():
     assert not os.path.exists('/bin/nosuchcommand')