unpack tuple of wrong size

[Andres Rosado-Sepulveda]

Tung Wai Yip wrote:

> I want to do 
> 
> t = (1,2)
> a,b = t  # get a=1 and b=2
> 
> However when
> t = (1,)
> a,b=t
> 
> I got a "ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size"
> 
> What I want is for a=1 and b=None. Is there a good way to do this?

t = (1,None)
a,b = t

(1,) means that the tuple has only one element. Remember that tuples are 
defined by the comma, except on those cases where it would be unclear 
what the intention is.

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