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1 220 uncredited
2 166 --> -->
 
 
<class 'MySQLdb._exceptions.ProgrammingError'>
Python 2.7.18: /usr/bin/python
Sun Apr 28 23:35:18 2024

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

 /home/stoecker/isfdb/install/cgi-bin/popular_authors.cgi in <module>()
    115                 print '<th>Editor</th>'
    116         print '</tr>'
=>  117         printTableBody(author_dict)
    118         print '</table>'
    119         
printTableBody = <function printTableBody>, author_dict = {18: 22, 29: 150, 38: 85, 58: 152, 65: 89, 81: 110, 143: 60, 160: 1, 162: 30, 165: 1, ...}
 /home/stoecker/isfdb/install/cgi-bin/popular_authors.cgi in printTableBody(author_dict={18: 22, 29: 150, 38: 85, 58: 152, 65: 89, 81: 110, 143: 60, 160: 1, 162: 30, 165: 1, ...})
     27                 print '<td>'
     28                 author_data = SQLloadAuthorData(author_id)
=>   29                 print ISFDBLink('ea.cgi', author_data[AUTHOR_ID], author_data[AUTHOR_CANONICAL])
     30                 print '</td>'
     31                 print '</tr>'
global ISFDBLink = <function ISFDBLink>, author_data = (1377, 'George Orwell', 'Blair, Eric Arthur', 'Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India', '1903-06-25', '1950-01-21', None, None, 32172, None, 1, 'http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/2/2e/George_Orwell.jpg', 31006, 'Orwell', 17, None), global AUTHOR_ID = 0, global AUTHOR_CANONICAL = 1
 /home/stoecker/isfdb/install/cgi-bin/library.py in ISFDBLink(script='ea.cgi', record_id=1377, displayed_value='George Orwell', brackets=False, argument='', transliterations=None)
    463         # use that function to retrieve transliterations
    464         elif trans_function and str(record_id).isdigit():
=>  465                 trans_values = trans_function(record_id)
    466         # If transliterated values have been found, add them to the link
    467         if trans_values:
trans_values = None, trans_function = <function SQLloadTransAuthorNames>, record_id = 1377
 /home/stoecker/isfdb/install/cgi-bin/SQLparsing.py in SQLloadTransAuthorNames(author_id=1377)
   1773 def SQLloadTransAuthorNames(author_id):
   1774         query = "select trans_author_name from trans_authors where author_id=%d" % int(author_id)
=> 1775         db.query(query)
   1776         result = db.store_result()
   1777         row = result.fetch_row()
global db = <_mysql.connection open to '127.0.0.1'>, db.query = <bound method Connection.query of <_mysql.connection open to '127.0.0.1'>>, query = 'select trans_author_name from trans_authors where author_id=1377'
 /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py in query(self=<_mysql.connection open to '127.0.0.1'>, query='select trans_author_name from trans_authors where author_id=1377')
    237         if isinstance(query, bytearray):
    238             query = bytes(query)
=>  239         _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
    240 
    241     def _bytes_literal(self, bs):
global _mysql = <module 'MySQLdb._mysql' from '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/_mysql.so'>, _mysql.connection = <type '_mysql.connection'>, _mysql.connection.query = <method 'query' of '_mysql.connection' objects>, self = <_mysql.connection open to '127.0.0.1'>, query = 'select trans_author_name from trans_authors where author_id=1377'

<class 'MySQLdb._exceptions.ProgrammingError'>: (1146, "Table 'isfdb.trans_authors' doesn't exist")
      args = (1146, "Table 'isfdb.trans_authors' doesn't exist")
      message = ''