From b8e186bc31e1f7e38b21333aeb441795ca0238a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 17:42:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1928579 [invalide identifier with colon in
 search/replace](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1928579)

---
 src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
index 7fad658ffb..072de89e74 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_bulk.py
@@ -1066,8 +1066,8 @@ class MetadataBulkDialog(QDialog, Ui_MetadataBulkDialog):
                     val = ids
                 else:
                     try:
-                        val = dict([(t.split(':')) for t in val])
-                    except:
+                        val = dict(t.split(':', 1) for t in val)
+                    except Exception:
                         raise Exception(_('Invalid identifier string. It must be a '
                                           'comma-separated list of pairs of '
                                           'strings separated by a colon'))