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BLU Speaker: Jon "maddog" Hall

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<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>
Python 2.7.5: /usr/bin/python
Mon Sep 28 02:45:00 2026

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

 /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in ()
    590   print '</html>'
    591 
    592 if __name__ == '__main__':
=>  593   main()
    594 
main = <function main>
 /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in main()
     48     if row_exists(dbh, 'persons', person):
     49       print_html_header('BLU speaker: %s' % person)
=>   50       show_one_speaker(dbh, path_info)
     51     else:
     52       print_html_header('Nonexistent BLU speaker')
global show_one_speaker = <function show_one_speaker>, dbh = <connection object at 0x7f9b239ab7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost' password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx', closed: 0>, global path_info = 'speakers/maddog'
 /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in show_one_speaker(dbh=<connection object at 0x7f9b239ab7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost' password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx', closed: 0>, path_info='speakers/maddog')
    294     print '<h1>BLU Speaker: %s</h1>' % plain_name
    295 
=>  296     show_person(dbh, pers_id)
    297 
    298     if row['bio']:
global show_person = <function show_person>, dbh = <connection object at 0x7f9b239ab7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost' password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx', closed: 0>, pers_id = 'maddog'
 /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in show_person(dbh=<connection object at 0x7f9b239ab7f8; dsn: 'dbna...t='localhost' password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx', closed: 0>, pers_id='maddog', show_link=None)
    340       email = 'no-such-user@example.com'
    341     print '<img src="%s" width=32 height=32 />' % gravatar(email, 32)
=>  342     print nicename(row['name'], pers_id, show_link)
    343     if row['title']: print ', %s' % row['title']
    344     if row['org_name']:
global nicename = <function nicename>, row = ['Jon "maddog" Hall', None, None, 'Jon "maddog" ...', 'jon.maddog.hall@gmail.com', None, None, None], pers_id = 'maddog', show_link = None
 /srv/www/cgi-bin/calendar in nicename(name='Jon "maddog" Hall', pers_id='maddog', show_link=None)
    371 
    372 def nicename(name, pers_id=None, show_link=None):
=>  373   pre,sur,post = name.split('/')
    374   name = '%s<strong>%s</strong>%s' % (pre,sur,post)
    375   link = '<a target="_blank" href="%s/speakers/%s">%s</a>' % (script_name, pers_id, name)
pre undefined, sur undefined, post undefined, name = 'Jon "maddog" Hall', name.split = <built-in method split of str object>

<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: need more than 1 value to unpack
      args = ('need more than 1 value to unpack',)
      message = 'need more than 1 value to unpack'