From 6285581bb5ce49b9bdfee048b13b14f3b7108a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lan Hui <1348141770@qq.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:00:53 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the webpage CRASH problem when the database has no
 article or when something bad happened on loading articles.

---
 app/Article.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/Article.py b/app/Article.py
index 98d56b6..331ecf8 100644
--- a/app/Article.py
+++ b/app/Article.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def get_today_article(user_word_list, visited_articles):
         text_level = text_difficulty_level(d['text'], d3)
         result_of_generate_article = "found"
 
-    today_article = None
+    today_article = {}
     if d:
         oxford_words = load_oxford_words(oxford_words_path)
         oxford_word_count, total_words = count_oxford_words(d['text'],oxford_words)