From 33f92326a7bc546ffca0a5377eb646e2d0a720a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Arman Aksoy" <arman@aksoy.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:11:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make genotype_extractor work even if varcode fails

---
 workers/shared.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/workers/shared.py b/workers/shared.py
index 2041e7b..97af49d 100644
--- a/workers/shared.py
+++ b/workers/shared.py
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ def guess_ensembl_release(filepath):
         release = varcode.load_vcf(filepath)[0].ensembl.release
     except ValueError:  # no guesses from varcode, return default
         release = config.ENSEMBL_RELEASE
+    except Exception:  # varcode cannot handle this one, so go w/ default
+        release = config.ENSEMBL_RELEASE
     finally:
         return release