Fixed #16866 -- Clearer error message if empty list is passed to select_template. Thanks Silver_Ghost for report and patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@16861 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/template/loader.py b/django/template/loader.py
index e10533393d..418501713d 100644
--- a/django/template/loader.py
+++ b/django/template/loader.py
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ def render_to_string(template_name, dictionary=None, context_instance=None):
 
 def select_template(template_name_list):
     "Given a list of template names, returns the first that can be loaded."
+    if not template_name_list:
+        raise TemplateDoesNotExist("No template names provided")
     not_found = []
     for template_name in template_name_list:
         try: