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

[Alan Gauld]

"Richard D. Moores" <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote

>    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 at a loss as to what the error means.

a.. def sleep_seconds_control(unchanged_count, higher_count, 
lower_count, secs):
a..     if unchanged_count >= 2:
a..         secs += 5
a..     else:
a..         secs = 10
a..     return secs

You return secs
You try to assign that single value to 4 variables.
Python tries to do it and finds that it can't break secs into 4 bits 
because
its not a sequence(not iterable).

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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