From 98f9cb0fbb0479c98bb2beeb9aaa25ea7afe86a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deathbybandaid <sam@deathbybandaid.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:34:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] test

---
 sopel_modules/SpiceBot/Read.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot/Read.py b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot/Read.py
index 4d3f0cc..b637462 100644
--- a/sopel_modules/SpiceBot/Read.py
+++ b/sopel_modules/SpiceBot/Read.py
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ class BotRead():
 
             # Read dictionary from file, if not, enable an empty dict
             filereadgood = True
-            inf = codecs.open(filepath, "r", encoding='utf-8')
-            infread = inf.read()
             try:
+                inf = codecs.open(filepath, "r", encoding='utf-8')
+                infread = inf.read()
                 dict_from_file = eval(infread)
             except Exception as e:
                 filereadgood = False