Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: Of course, you get the same error with:
>>> f = open('foo', 'wb') >>> x, y = f Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IOError: File not open for reading i.e. the tuple assignment iterates over the file, and calls readline() ---------- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9940> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com