From b3021720d62d9d074b05b5f43eb349b149fe7f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Foster <nick@ettus.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:57:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] GUI: catch ConfigParser.NoSectionError for platforms which
 don't throw IOError

---
 apps/modes_gui | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/modes_gui b/apps/modes_gui
index 9a8ffb6..9c09d6d 100755
--- a/apps/modes_gui
+++ b/apps/modes_gui
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ class mainwindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
             prefs.read(os.path.expanduser(self.opt_file))
             for item in prefs.items("GUI"):
                 defaults[item[0]] = item[1]
-        except IOError:
+        except (IOError, ConfigParser.NoSectionError):
             print "No preferences file %s found, creating..." % os.path.expanduser(self.opt_file)
             self.write_defaults(defaults)