diff --git a/src/TextDoc.py b/src/TextDoc.py
index 526f6b371..a1e613454 100644
--- a/src/TextDoc.py
+++ b/src/TextDoc.py
@@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ class StyleSheetList:
             parser = make_parser()
             parser.setContentHandler(SheetParser(self))
             parser.parse(self.file)
+        except IOError:
+            pass
         except:
             print "could not parse file"