From c81d565665b583beaba8b74af0c5594cfd270373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ecdsa <ecdsa@github>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:38:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add error message for import_key failure

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

diff --git a/lib/wallet.py b/lib/wallet.py
index 8ccd67afa..189fa1091 100644
--- a/lib/wallet.py
+++ b/lib/wallet.py
@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@ class Wallet:
     def import_key(self, sec, password):
         # check password
         seed = self.decode_seed(password)
-        address = address_from_private_key(sec)
+        try:
+            address = address_from_private_key(sec)
+        except:
+            raise BaseException('Invalid private key')
 
         if self.is_mine(address):
             raise BaseException('Address already in wallet')