From 0846ed0fe1dd0f6fe4d1e973d7d1a46c2e37e8f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 07:54:27 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
index 9f0b10faa4..0f00ea7b24 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ def get_title_sort_pat(lang=None):
             q = get_lang()
     q = canonicalize_lang(q) if q else q
     data = tweaks['per_language_title_sort_articles']
-    ans = data.get(q, None)
+    try:
+        ans = data.get(q, None)
+    except AttributeError:
+        ans = None  # invalid tweak value
     try:
         ans = frozenset(ans) if ans else frozenset(data['eng'])
     except: