new_contents: from __future__ import unicode_literals
  import pytest
  from ...lang.en import English
  from ...util import load_model
  
  
  def test_issue1242_empty_strings():
      nlp = English()
      doc = nlp('')
      assert len(doc) == 0
      docs = list(nlp.pipe(['', 'hello']))
      assert len(docs[0]) == 0
      assert len(docs[1]) == 1
  
  
  @pytest.mark.models('en')
  def test_issue1242_empty_strings_en_core_web_sm():
      nlp = load_model('en_core_web_sm')
      doc = nlp('')
      assert len(doc) == 0
      docs = list(nlp.pipe(['', 'hello']))
      assert len(docs[0]) == 0
      assert len(docs[1]) == 1
  
subject: Check that empty strings are handled. Closes #1242