don't crash when encountering bad marshal data

justvanrossum · justvanrossum · commit 924e18e0b8d3 · 2001-07-05T07:03:16.000Z
diff --git a/Mac/Tools/IDE/MacPrefs.py b/Mac/Tools/IDE/MacPrefs.py
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ def __init__(self, path, creator = 'Pyth'):
 		self._prefsdict = {}
 		try:
 			prefdict = marshal.load(open(self.__path, 'rb'))
-		except IOError:
+		except (IOError, ValueError):
+			# file not found, or currupt marshal data
 			pass
 		else:
 			for key, value in prefdict.items():
