[Tutor] (no subject)

[Glen Bunting]

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?

Glen 



-----Original Message-----
From: Deirdre Saoirse [mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:56 PM
To: Glen Bunting
Cc: 'Daniel Yoo'; 'tutor@python.org'
Subject: RE: [Tutor] (no subject)


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Glen Bunting wrote:

> When I try :
>
> >>> import string
> >>> CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').read()
> >>> for 1 in CONFIG:
> ...     key, value = string.split(1, ';')
> ...     print 'The key is : ', key
> ...     print 'The value is : ', value
>
> SyntaxError: Can't assign to literal

You probably want:

for l in CONFIG:

1 is a number and can't be assigned a value.

Also, likely you want .readlines() rather than .read()

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