From 91b4019d2e3c804262c780cc93ffeb282d538742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:17:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sanitize get_amount

---
 gui/qt/amountedit.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gui/qt/amountedit.py b/gui/qt/amountedit.py
index f0fa0404b..96bbd1201 100644
--- a/gui/qt/amountedit.py
+++ b/gui/qt/amountedit.py
@@ -64,11 +64,12 @@ class BTCAmountEdit(AmountEdit):
         return "BTC" if p == 8 else "mBTC"
 
     def get_amount(self):
-        x = unicode( self.text() )
-        if x in['.', '']: 
+        try:
+            x = Decimal(str(self.text()))
+        except:
             return None
         p = pow(10, self.decimal_point())
-        return int( p * Decimal(x) )
+        return int( p * x )
 
     def setAmount(self, amount):
         p = pow(10, self.decimal_point())