Don't trust encoding auto-detection when decoding

mutalyzer/File.py

@@ -170,7 +170,13 @@ class File() :
         handle = _UniversalNewlinesByteStreamIter(handle, encoding=encoding,
                                                   buffer_size=BUFFER_SIZE)
 
-        buf = handle.read(BUFFER_SIZE)
+        try:
+            buf = handle.read(BUFFER_SIZE)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            self.__output.addMessage(__file__, 3, 'EBPARSE',
+                                     'Could not decode file (using %s encoding).'
+                                     % encoding)
+            return None
 
         # Default dialect
         dialect = 'excel'
@@ -196,8 +202,14 @@ class File() :
         reader = csv.reader(handle, dialect)
 
         ret = []
-        for i in reader:
-            ret.append([c.decode('utf-8') for c in i])
+        try:
+            for i in reader:
+                ret.append([c.decode('utf-8') for c in i])
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            self.__output.addMessage(__file__, 3, 'EBPARSE',
+                                     'Could not decode file (using %s encoding).'
+                                     % encoding)
+            return None
 
         return ret
     #__parseCsvFile

mutalyzer/Retriever.py

@@ -114,7 +114,13 @@ class Retriever(object) :
             encoding = 'utf-8'
 
         if not util.is_utf8_alias(encoding):
-            raw_data = raw_data.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8')
+            try:
+                raw_data = raw_data.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8')
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                self._output.addMessage(__file__, 4, 'ENOPARSE',
+                                        'Could not decode file (using %s encoding).'
+                                        % encoding)
+                return None
 
         # Compress the data to save disk space.
         comp = bz2.BZ2Compressor()
@@ -368,7 +374,8 @@ class GenBankRetriever(Retriever):
                     "number to reduce downloading overhead." % unicode(record.id))
         #if
 
-        self._write(raw_data, outfile)
+        if not self._write(raw_data, outfile):
+            return None
 
         return outfile, GI
     #write