diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_var_base.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_var_base.py
index 76c871f37216b8c65014a665f547643b7f755b96..77432a59de273c570e87dda388adf8e11475eff7 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_var_base.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_var_base.py
@@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ class TestVarBase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(a_str, expected)
         paddle.enable_static()
 
+    def test_tensor_str_shape_with_zero(self):
+        paddle.disable_static(paddle.CPUPlace())
+        x = paddle.ones((10, 10))
+        y = paddle.fluid.layers.where(x == 0)
+        a_str = str(y)
+
+        expected = '''Tensor(shape=[0, 2], dtype=int64, place=CPUPlace, stop_gradient=True,
+       [])'''
+
+        self.assertEqual(a_str, expected)
+        paddle.enable_static()
+
     def test_print_tensor_dtype(self):
         paddle.disable_static(paddle.CPUPlace())
         a = paddle.rand([1])
diff --git a/python/paddle/tensor/to_string.py b/python/paddle/tensor/to_string.py
index 778a391df605ecf57f86ceac17a521ad50a4d84d..e5148d039c9273acd01eea4224634189d386a44e 100644
--- a/python/paddle/tensor/to_string.py
+++ b/python/paddle/tensor/to_string.py
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ def set_printoptions(precision=None,
 def _to_sumary(var):
     edgeitems = DEFAULT_PRINT_OPTIONS.edgeitems
 
+    # Handle tensor of shape contains 0, like [0, 2], [3, 0, 3]
+    if np.prod(var.shape) == 0:
+        return np.array([])
+
     if len(var.shape) == 0:
         return var
     elif len(var.shape) == 1: