Thread: How to modify calibre text sort algorithm
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Old 01-26-2020, 07:50 PM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by khonshu View Post
Hello all.

Most of my books are in spanish and so I have titles with beginning exclamation and question marks (¿ and ¡). I would like to add that symbols to the list of articles to be ignored when sorting text but I'm getting an error.

The items I'm adding are:

u'¿\\s+'),
u'¡\\s+'),

The error is:

Code:
calibre, version 4.9.1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\preferences\tweaks.py", line 535, in apply_tweak
  File "<string>", line 93
    u'¿\\s+'),
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
The arrow points the + symbol after the s.

Of course someone would think of removing such caracters from the title but we are talking about a few thousand books. Any help would be welcome. Thanks.
The problem is actually the right parenthesis. The error dialog uses a proportional font, and the characters in the line do not line up properly. I have wrapped the error in code tags to show this.

You should be using just:

Code:
 u'¿\\s+',
 u'¡\\s+',
The last comma is should be OK.
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