Comments on my first script?

[bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com]

On 13 juin, 17:24, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 3:19 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.> 42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> > Phillip B Oldham a écrit :
>
(snip)
> > >    try:
> > >            for line in rec.split("\n"):
> > >                    bits = line.split(': ')
> > >                    a = bits.pop(0)
> > >                    b = bits.pop(0)
>
> > if you expect only one ': ', then:
> >                          a, b = line.split(': ')
>
> > if you can have many but don't care about the others:
> >                         bits = line.split(': ')
> >                         a, b = bits[0], bits[1]
>
> or:
> a, b = line.split(': ')[:1]
>

ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

You probably meant:

   a, b = line.split(': ')[:2]