From 1101df6be6ed811846a5d978da736db16e038528 2014-02-07 20:09:38
From: MinRK <benjaminrk@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-02-07 20:09:38
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #4264: catch unicode error listing profiles

there can be garbage files on the filesystem, and we shouldn't be bothered by them.

Candidate for backport

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diff --git a/IPython/core/profileapp.py b/IPython/core/profileapp.py
index 96948a9..3ceace7 100644
--- a/IPython/core/profileapp.py
+++ b/IPython/core/profileapp.py
@@ -99,7 +99,10 @@ def list_profiles_in(path):
     files = os.listdir(path)
     profiles = []
     for f in files:
-        full_path = os.path.join(path, f)
+        try:
+            full_path = os.path.join(path, f)
+        except UnicodeError:
+            continue
         if os.path.isdir(full_path) and f.startswith('profile_'):
             profiles.append(f.split('_',1)[-1])
     return profiles