From 522297aa33ca59ee0e817e43732d37eb7df235e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Auric Vente <mprops@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:08:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Mods

---
 cromulant/manifest.json |  2 +-
 cromulant/storage.py    | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 cromulant/utils.py      |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cromulant/manifest.json b/cromulant/manifest.json
index 6a24118..02da25c 100644
--- a/cromulant/manifest.json
+++ b/cromulant/manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "version": "1.6.0",
+    "version": "1.7.0",
     "title": "Cromulant",
     "program": "cromulant",
     "author": "madprops",
diff --git a/cromulant/storage.py b/cromulant/storage.py
index 376cdb3..dec65fe 100644
--- a/cromulant/storage.py
+++ b/cromulant/storage.py
@@ -8,12 +8,18 @@ from .config import Config
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .ants import Ant
 
+from .utils import Utils
+
 
 class Storage:
     @staticmethod
     def get_ants() -> Any:
-        with Config.ants_json.open() as file:
-            return json.load(file)
+        try:
+            with Config.ants_json.open() as file:
+                return json.load(file)
+        except Exception as e:
+            Utils.print(str(e))
+            return []
 
     @staticmethod
     def save_ants(ants: list[Ant]) -> None:
@@ -29,8 +35,12 @@ class Storage:
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_settings() -> Any:
-        with Config.settings_json.open() as file:
-            return json.load(file)
+        try:
+            with Config.settings_json.open() as file:
+                return json.load(file)
+        except Exception as e:
+            Utils.print(str(e))
+            return {}
 
     @staticmethod
     def save_settings(settings: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
diff --git a/cromulant/utils.py b/cromulant/utils.py
index e6166f6..ef2e300 100644
--- a/cromulant/utils.py
+++ b/cromulant/utils.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ from wonderwords import RandomWord, RandomSentence  # type: ignore
 from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont  # type: ignore
 
 from .config import Config
-from .storage import Storage
 
 
 class Utils:
@@ -21,6 +20,8 @@ class Utils:
 
     @staticmethod
     def prepare() -> None:
+        from .storage import Storage
+
         Utils.names = Storage.get_names()
         Utils.countries = Storage.get_countries()
         Utils.rand_word = RandomWord()