ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

[Morten W. Petersen]

Hi there.

I was adding a port specification feature to my surveil project as shown
here:

https://github.com/morphex/surveil/commit/703318f87c4c450a37944b565a10718ef27b57b4

A bit later I was surprised when the script raised an exception, and that I
had to catch a ValueError instead of an IndexError:

https://github.com/morphex/surveil/commit/d5c49c54d4037557aaca1f78178b76441853c7af

I've been reading up on a bit of C++, Assembler etc. lately, so maybe my
mind expected an IndexError because of that, but isn't it logical that the
string is parsed and split, and then later the unpacking operation fails
with an IndexError?

Regards,

Morten

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