From cb67ec4454aecbd55151c7200c1e005da1627e57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jimbo77 <onlineregular@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:50:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] changed to more descriptive exception

---
 lib/wallet.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/wallet.py b/lib/wallet.py
index cbf0cdcb..4337850b 100644
--- a/lib/wallet.py
+++ b/lib/wallet.py
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ class Wallet:
             self.conversion_currency = d.get('conversion_currency', 'USD')
             self.theme = d.get('theme', 'Cleanlook')
         except:
-            raise BaseException("cannot read wallet file")
+            raise IOError("Cannot read wallet file.")
 
         self.update_tx_history()