From 5ace559201c714ab89b3092b87d791e16973f31d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sofie Van Landeghem <svlandeg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:18:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ensure span.text works for an empty span (#6772)

---
 spacy/tests/regression/test_issue6755.py | 9 +++++++++
 spacy/tokens/span.pyx                    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 spacy/tests/regression/test_issue6755.py

diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue6755.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue6755.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c735b1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue6755.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# coding: utf8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+
+def test_issue6755(en_tokenizer):
+    doc = en_tokenizer("This is a magnificent sentence.")
+    span = doc[:0]
+    assert span.text_with_ws == ""
+    assert span.text == ""
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
index cf0775bae..2ac8af9e4 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/span.pyx
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ cdef class Span:
     def text(self):
         """RETURNS (unicode): The original verbatim text of the span."""
         text = self.text_with_ws
-        if self[-1].whitespace_:
+        if len(self) > 0 and self[-1].whitespace_:
             text = text[:-1]
         return text