Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Core._privmsgHandler_ of <SimpleIRC.Modules.Bot.Core.Core object at 0xb77cab8c>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eric/programming/python/SimpleIRC/src/SimpleIRC/Modules/Bot/Core.py", line 264, in _privmsgHandler_
    query = self.session.query(User).filter_by(UserHost=Source.hostmask).filter('AccessLevel >= %r' % (command.AccessLevel))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 368, in filter_by
    clauses = [self._joinpoint.get_property(key, resolve_synonyms=True).compare(operators.eq, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/properties.py", line 317, in compare
    return self._optimized_compare(value, value_is_parent=value_is_parent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/properties.py", line 322, in _optimized_compare
    return self._get_strategy(strategies.LazyLoader).lazy_clause(value, reverse_direction=not value_is_parent)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/strategies.py", line 298, in lazy_clause
    return visitors.traverse(criterion, clone=True, visit_bindparam=visit_bindparam)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 108, in traverse
    return Vis().traverse(clause, clone=clone)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/visitors.py", line 76, in traverse
    meth(target)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/strategies.py", line 297, in visit_bindparam
    bindparam.value = mapper._get_committed_attr_by_column(instance, bind_to_col[bindparam.key])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/mapper.py", line 919, in _get_committed_attr_by_column
    return self._get_col_to_prop(column).getcommitted(obj._state, column)
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute '_state'