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When finding similar books by author ignore "et al." suffix on author names. Fixes #2116804 [[Enhancement] Books by same author should ignore "et al."](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2116804)

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src/calibre/gui2/actions/similar_books.py
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@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ class SimilarBooksAction(InterfaceAction):
if isinstance(val, string_or_bytes): if isinstance(val, string_or_bytes):
val = [val] val = [val]
if typ == 'authors':
import re
def remove_et_al(au):
return re.sub(r'\s+et al\.$', '', au)
val = list(map(remove_et_al, val))
search = [col + ':"='+t.replace('"', '\\"')+'"' for t in val] search = [col + ':"='+t.replace('"', '\\"')+'"' for t in val]
if search: if search:
self.gui.search.set_search_string(join.join(search), self.gui.search.set_search_string(join.join(search),