[Tutor] What does "TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable" mean?

[Eloy Zuniga Jr.]

Forget what I said.  Tim's right.
Return an iterable from within your method not an integer.


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 21/10/2010 13:42, Richard D. Moores wrote:
>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "c:\P26Working\test_urllib2_21a.py", line 148, in<module>
>>     unchanged_count, higher_count, lower_count, secs =
>> sleep_seconds_control(unchanged_count, higher_count, lower_count,
>> secs)
>> TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable
>>
>> I'm working on a script that keeps track of the USD ->  Japanese Yen
>> exchange rate. I'm experimenting with adding functionality that
>> changes the seconds to sleep between web scrapes, depending on
>> consecutive outputs of no change in the exchange rate. Please see the
>> code at<http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/KWmdk8jb>
>>
>
> sleep_seconds_control is returning an integer.
>
> You're trying to assign that integer to the four names:
>
> unchanged_count, higher_count, lower_count, secs
>
> Python therefore tries to iterate over the integer to
> allocate one item to each of the four name.
>
> And it can't. Because it's an integer
>
> TJG
>
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