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Deirdre Saoirse
deirdre@deirdre.net
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:11:09 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Glen Bunting wrote:
> When I make the changes:
>
> >>> import string
> >>> CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').readlines()
> >>> for eachLine in CONFIG:
> ... key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
> ... print 'The key is : ', key
> ...
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
> What does that mean and what am I doing wrong?
It means that one of your lines doesn't have two elements when split.
You can fix this by:
try:
key, value = string.split(eachLine, ';')
else:
key = eachLine
value = ''
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