Too Many Values To Unpack

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Nov 22 00:19:49 EST 2009


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	I apparently thought "for ... in dictionary" would return (key,
> value) pairs, but it appears that it only returns the key itself -- and
> a single key can't be unpacked.
> 
> 	Misleading error... too many /targets/ to unpack...

My guess is that the keys are strings, which means it's
unpacking them into characters, in which case a key of
length 3 or more will produce that message.

-- 
Greg



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