From 2f76982c38cae7d752e5694377689e0596594a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Christopher=20Ram=C3=ADrez?= <chris.ramirezg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:39:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix #5.

---
 secretary.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/secretary.py b/secretary.py
index 507706d..6373045 100644
--- a/secretary.py
+++ b/secretary.py
@@ -300,6 +300,10 @@ class Render(object):
         """
             Convert a markdown text into a ODT formated text
         """
+
+        if not isinstance(markdown_text, basestring):
+            return ''
+
         from xml.dom import Node
         from markdown_map import transform_map