Handle map characters outside of the alphabet.

Can happen when importing maps from elsewhere.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fshare.py b/fshare.py
index 6528602..228f5e6 100755
--- a/fshare.py
+++ b/fshare.py
@@ -179,7 +179,13 @@ class URLMap:
             data = [l.strip().split() for l in self._file.readlines()]
             self._short_to_full = dict(data)
             self._full_to_short = dict(((b, a) for (a, b) in data))
-            self._next_id       = self._enc.decode_url(data[-1][0]) if len(data) else 0
+
+            try:
+                self._next_id = self._enc.decode_url(data[-1][0])
+            except (IndexError, ValueError):
+                # data is empty or the mapping uses characters not in alphabet
+                self._next_id = 0
+
         except:
             self.close()
             raise