From 9608af29a1956ab1f1ba8121bf6eaacab402e0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benny Malengier <benny.malengier@gramps-project.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:57:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow no surname list to be created when needed

svn: r16044
---
 src/gen/lib/surnamebase.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/gen/lib/surnamebase.py b/src/gen/lib/surnamebase.py
index 82186e9be..52786ea1f 100644
--- a/src/gen/lib/surnamebase.py
+++ b/src/gen/lib/surnamebase.py
@@ -135,7 +135,10 @@ class SurnameBase(object):
                 return surname
         if self.surname_list:
             return self.surname_list[0]
-        return None
+        else:
+            #self healing, add a surname to this object and return it
+            self.set_surname_list([Surname()])
+            return self.surname_list[0]
 
     def set_primary_surname(self, surnamenr=0):
         """