From 34f4f216b22b3cc778721807b206ecf940fe8cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Golding <rob@robgolding.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 10:58:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Be a bit smarter about error messages

---
 tasklib/task.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tasklib/task.py b/tasklib/task.py
index e346f67..0546e44 100644
--- a/tasklib/task.py
+++ b/tasklib/task.py
@@ -254,7 +254,10 @@ class TaskWarrior(object):
                              stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
         if p.returncode:
-            error_msg = stderr.strip().splitlines()[-1]
+            if stderr.strip():
+                error_msg = stderr.strip().splitlines()[-1]
+            else:
+                error_msg = stdout.strip()
             raise TaskWarriorException(error_msg)
         return stdout.strip().split('\n')
 
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2.39.5