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[Kalle Svensson]

Sez 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?

There is more than one ";" in the line, so string.split returns more than
two elements.  But you try to assign them to key, value.  Only two elements.
There are many ways to solve it.  For example, try:

import string
CONFIG = open('webconf.txt').readlines()
for eachLine in CONFIG:
    elements = string.split(eachLine, ';')
    print 'The key is : ', elements[0]    # the first element
    print 'The rest is : ', elements[1:]  # the rest

Peace,
  Kalle
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