From 7acc09f226b25fd864c64a95c65cb719257e0b49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ri938 <r_irv938@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:19:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Minor correction to previous submit

---
 pandas/core/indexes/category.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/category.py b/pandas/core/indexes/category.py
index b7ae053461cb5..568b7e1c453f5 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/category.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/category.py
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ def reindex(self, target, method=None, level=None, limit=None,
 
         indexer, missing = self.get_indexer_non_unique(np.array(target))
 
-        if len(indexer):
+        if len(self.codes):
             new_target = self.take(indexer)
         else:
             new_target = target