Highscores list

[Shawn Minisall]

I'm writing a game that uses two functions to check and see if a file 
called highScoresList.txt exists in the main dir of the game program.  
If it doesn, it creates one.  That part is working fine.  The problem is 
arising when it goes to read in the high scores from the file when I 
play again.
>
> This is the error msg python is giving me
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
>   main()
> File "I:\PYTHON\PROJECT #3\PROJECT3.PYW", line 330, in main
>   if(hasHighScore(wins) == True):
> File "I:\PYTHON\PROJECT #3\PROJECT3.PYW", line 175, in hasHighScore
>   scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
> ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>
> Here's the relavant code:
>
> def hasHighScore(score):
>    #opens highScoresList.txt
>    infile = open("highScoresList.txt",'r')
>    scores = [0,0,0]
>    names = ["","",""]
>
>    #reads in scores from highScoresList.txt
>    i=0
>    for line in infile.readlines():
>        scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
>        names[i]=string.rstrip(names[i])
>        i += 1
>    infile.close()
>      #compares player's score with those in highScoresList.txt
>    i=0
>    for i in range(0,len(scores)):
>        if(score > int(scores[i])):
>            return True
>        else:
>            return False
>
>
>   def setHighScores(score,name):
>    #opens highScoresList.txt
>    infile = open("highScoresList.txt",'r')
>    scores = [0,0,0]
>    names = ["","",""]
>
>    #reads in scores from highScoresList.txt
>    i=0
>    for line in infile.readlines():
>        scores[i],names[i] = string.split(line,"\t")
>        scores[i]=int(scores[i])
>        names[i]=string.rstrip(names[i])
>        i += 1
>    infile.close()
>      #shuffles thru the highScoresList.txt and inserts player's score 
> if higher then those in file
>    i=len(scores)
>    while(score > scores[i-1] and i>0):
>        i -= 1
>
>    scores.insert(i,score)
>    names.insert(i,name)
>    scores.pop(len(scores)-1)
>    names.pop(len(names)-1)
>      #writes new highScoresList.txt
>    outfile = open("highScoresList.txt","w")
>
>    outfile.write ("     High Score                 Name             \n")
>    outfile.write ("-------------------------------------------------\n")
>  
>    i=0
>    for i in range(0,len(scores)):
>        outfile.write("\t" + str(scores[i]) + "\t\t\t" + names[i] + "\n")
>    outfile.close()
>
> And here's the call to the functions at the end of my game, included 
> in the error msg.
>
>    #adds player's score to high score list if high enough
>    if(hasHighScore(wins) == True):
>        setHighScores(wins,getName(wins))
>
> And this is what the text file looks like when it happens.
>
>     High Score                 Name
------------------------------------------------
     15                              SHAWN
      0                    
      0
> The answer is probably simple, I've just been working on this program 
> so long that my brain has turned to mush.  Any help would be much 
> appreciated...thanks.
>
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