diff -r c7205f6f8194 drpython/drPluginMenu.py
--- a/drpython/drPluginMenu.py	Sun Aug 08 03:20:37 2010 +0200
+++ b/drpython/drPluginMenu.py	Sun Aug 08 03:45:03 2010 +0200
@@ -212,7 +212,10 @@
 
 
         #sort alphabetically (after self.indexes after loadpluginsfromindexfiles)
-        loadpluginsfromindexfiles, self.indexes = zip(*sorted(zip(loadpluginsfromindexfiles,self.indexes)))
+        if loadpluginsfromindexfiles:
+            loadpluginsfromindexfiles, self.indexes = zip(
+                *sorted(zip(loadpluginsfromindexfiles, self.indexes))
+            )
 
         loadpluginsfromindexfiles=list(loadpluginsfromindexfiles)
         self.indexes=list(self.indexes)