From 970fc857106a75e24a70f8ecd8face9624b11c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:32:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix sort direction bug in template function sort_list()

---
 src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
index c1af65f9e3..144d130564 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/formatter_functions.py
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ class BuiltinListSort(BuiltinFormatterFunction):
 
     def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals, list1, direction, separator):
         res = [l.strip() for l in list1.split(separator) if l.strip()]
-        return ', '.join(sorted(res, key=sort_key, reverse=direction != 0))
+        return ', '.join(sorted(res, key=sort_key, reverse=direction != "0"))
 
 class BuiltinToday(BuiltinFormatterFunction):
     name = 'today'