From 1968b5212a2eed6ce374a34fafd6f399ca38e66d 2008-02-21 17:35:34
From: Ville M. Vainio <vivainio@gmail.com>
Date: 2008-02-21 17:35:34
Subject: [PATCH] %quickref crashed if a magic function has no docstring

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diff --git a/IPython/Magic.py b/IPython/Magic.py
index b43f604..6f5c79e 100644
--- a/IPython/Magic.py
+++ b/IPython/Magic.py
@@ -409,7 +409,10 @@ license. To use profiling, please install"python2.3-profiler" from non-free.""")
                     break
             if mode == 'brief':
                 # only first line
-                fndoc = fn.__doc__.split('\n',1)[0]
+                if fn.__doc__:                    
+                    fndoc = fn.__doc__.split('\n',1)[0]
+                else:
+                    fndoc = 'No documentation'
             else:
                 fndoc = fn.__doc__