Update paginator.py

Use str.startswith('/') to check whether 'ret' starts with a slash. The original code fails when 'ret' is an empty string, such as when INDEX_URL is set to "".

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pelican/paginator.py b/pelican/paginator.py
index 7e738fe3..4231e67b 100644
--- a/pelican/paginator.py
+++ b/pelican/paginator.py
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class Page:
         # changed to lstrip() because that would remove all leading slashes and
         # thus make the workaround impossible. See
         # test_custom_pagination_pattern() for a verification of this.
-        if ret[0] == '/':
+        if ret.startswith('/'):
             ret = ret[1:]
         return ret