From f100198a8a60af378a2c92d8566711de29968bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trenton H <797416+stumpylog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:42:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Handle the possilbe case of splitting on an empty string
 returning a list with an empty string

---
 src/paperless/settings.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 7b1b600c8..d051a6ebc 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def __get_list(
     string, or the default if the key does not exist
     """
     if key in os.environ:
-        return os.environ[key].split(sep)
+        return list(filter(None, os.environ[key].split(sep)))
     elif default is not None:
         return default
     else: