From 5d8a78ff0017b8148e20f248d74ab7e6c8ec43f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Forest <web11.forest@tibit.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:51:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore empty metadata.

Fixes getpelican/pelican#1469.
---
 pelican/readers.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index 85147e3e..3779f10d 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -460,6 +460,10 @@ class Readers(FileStampDataCacher):
             self.cache_data(path, (content, reader_metadata))
         metadata.update(reader_metadata)
 
+        # remove any metadata that might have been defined with empty values
+        metadata = dict([i for i in metadata.items()
+            if i[1] or isinstance(i, (int, bool, float))])
+
         if content:
             # find images with empty alt
             find_empty_alt(content, path)