From 6d8631d90dc03603ce7c0482ccdb16bf3a88d4d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 20:00:27 +0000
Subject: Fix shuffle and chararray printing for empty strings.

---
 numpy/core/defchararray.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'numpy/core/defchararray.py')

diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
index 80822328c..39492b421 100644
--- a/numpy/core/defchararray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class chararray(ndarray):
         if isinstance(val, (string_, unicode_)):
             temp = val.rstrip()
             if len(temp) == 0:
-                val = val[0]
+                val = ''
             else:
                 val = temp
         return val
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