Merge pull request #10 from dakotasmith/exceptional_branch

Exceptional branch

ekko.py

@@ -23,9 +23,15 @@
 
 # TODO: put all this in a config/settings
 data_directory = 'data'
-connection = pymongo.Connection()
-db = connection.ekko
-collection = db.items
+
+try:
+    connection = pymongo.Connection()
+    db = connection.ekko
+    collection = db.items
+except pymongo.errors.AutoReconnect as e:
+    # couldn't connect to MongoDB, die
+    print e
+    quit()
 
 
 # This is an abstract class describing what accounts must do
@@ -587,10 +593,14 @@ def write_file(outfile, output):
             os.makedirs(outdir)
 
         f = open(outfile, 'w')
-        f.write(output) #.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'))
-        f.close()
-    except IOError:
-        print 'NO!!! could not write to %s' % outfile
+        try:
+            f.write(output)
+        except UnicodeEncodeError as e:
+            f.write(output.encode('utf-8', 'ignore'))
+        finally:
+            f.close()
+            except IOError:
+                print 'NO!!! could not write to %s' % outfile