From f46b403a8d2ffc382d12b273932bd73d7127df03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@electrum.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 10:29:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix #2338

---
 lib/contacts.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/contacts.py b/lib/contacts.py
index f641476d0..90b4d9ae7 100644
--- a/lib/contacts.py
+++ b/lib/contacts.py
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ class Contacts(dict):
     def __init__(self, storage):
         self.storage = storage
         d = self.storage.get('contacts', {})
-        self.update(d)
+        try:
+            self.update(d)
+        except:
+            return
         # backward compatibility
         for k, v in self.items():
             _type, n = v