diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index db5b6d64..46e78de2 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     # https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/
     machine:
       python:
-        version: 3.6.10
+        version: 3.6.9
     steps:
     # Machine Setup
     #   If you break your build into multiple jobs with workflows, you will probably want to do the parts of this that are relevant in each
diff --git a/uncompyle6/semantics/pysource.py b/uncompyle6/semantics/pysource.py
index cef5f608..9f24503b 100644
--- a/uncompyle6/semantics/pysource.py
+++ b/uncompyle6/semantics/pysource.py
@@ -2297,9 +2297,10 @@ class SourceWalker(GenericASTTraversal, object):
             pass
 
         have_qualname = False
-        if ast[0] == "sstmt":
-            ast[0] = ast[0][0]
-        first_stmt = ast[0]
+        if len(ast[0]):
+            if ast[0] == "sstmt":
+                ast[0] = ast[0][0]
+            first_stmt = ast[0]
 
         if self.version < 3.0:
             # Should we ditch this in favor of the "else" case?