Conversion of perl unpack code to python - something odd

[Peter Otten]

Andrew Robert wrote:

> format='4s 4s 48s 48s 64s 4s 256s 128s 128s 48s'

You are trying to squeeze 10 items into just

> d1,d2=struct.unpack(format,data)

two variables (d1 and d2)

> ValueError: too many values to unpack

and Python is quite explicit that it doesn't like that once you realize that
'unpack' doesn't refer to struct.unpack() but to tuple unpacking like

>>> a, b = "ab"
>>> a, b = "abc"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: too many values to unpack


Peter