From 37888fc6a5e642f4e7f5072da95e294b70f9ba34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: thomasv <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:39:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] upgrade message for ecdsa

---
 lib/bitcoin.py |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/bitcoin.py b/lib/bitcoin.py
index 1f5d361..d5fdc9d 100644
--- a/lib/bitcoin.py
+++ b/lib/bitcoin.py
@@ -272,8 +272,11 @@ def is_valid(addr):
 
 ########### end pywallet functions #######################
 
-
-from ecdsa.ecdsa import curve_secp256k1, generator_secp256k1
+try:
+    from ecdsa.ecdsa import curve_secp256k1, generator_secp256k1
+except:
+    print "cannot import ecdsa.curve_secp256k1. You probably need to upgrade ecdsa.\nTry: sudo pip install --upgrade ecdsa"
+    exit()
 from ecdsa.curves import SECP256k1
 from ecdsa.util import string_to_number, number_to_string
 
-- 
1.7.1