From f02c39dfafd94f567d751ce7ced9d6a73e838ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:17:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * Compare to is not None, for more robustness

---
 spacy/tokenizer.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index 1cedac1bc..f20367b08 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
                 lemma = props.get("L", None)
                 slice_unicode(&string, form, 0, len(form))
                 tokens[i].lex = <LexemeC*>self.vocab.get(self.vocab.mem, &string)
-                if lemma:
+                if lemma is not None:
                     tokens[i].lemma = self.vocab.strings[lemma]
                 else:
                     tokens[i].lemma = 0