Error in python script

Oleg Broytmann phd at emerald.netskate.ru
Wed Jul 7 06:17:55 EDT 1999


On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, John wrote:
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "C:\InetPub\scripts\ffratingextract.py", line 39, in ?
>     field_name, field_value = string.split(line, ':')
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

   The problem is that you expected 2-tuple (field_name, field_value), but
strin.split returns 1 (there is no ':' in line) or >3 (there are few colonss).
Try this:
   field_name, field_value = string.split(line, ':', 1)

Oleg.
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