From 9139da12eb488262521a6be0e250e802023a9a6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:01:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Change vertical bars to commas in author names

---
 src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
index b0ba049a7f..2e5c7838ca 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ class MetadataBulkDialog(QDialog, Ui_MetadataBulkDialog):
                     if val:
                         val.sort(cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(x.lower(), y.lower()))
                         val = val[0]
+                        if txt == 'authors':
+                            val = val.replace('|', ',')
                     else:
                         val = ''
             else:
@@ -303,6 +305,8 @@ class MetadataBulkDialog(QDialog, Ui_MetadataBulkDialog):
                     # The standard tags and authors values want to be lists.
                     # All custom columns are to be strings
                     val = fm['is_multiple'].join(val)
+                elif field == 'authors':
+                    val = [v.replace('|', ',') for v in val]
             else:
                 val = apply_pattern(val)