[issue40202] Misleading grammatically of ValueError Message?

[Vedran Čačić]

Vedran Čačić <vedgar at gmail.com> added the comment:

> It says **too many** but I assign a few than the size of the list. am I the one who wrong here?

Yes. The same as here:

> Should said something else because it received less values and expected should say 3 and not 2, correct?

You probably don't understand _values_. a,b and x,y on the left side are not values. They are names. The 1,2,3 on the right side are values. Those are counted.

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