On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > I just spent a while beating my head against this one. > > # Python 2.6 >>>> a, b = 'foo' > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: too many values to unpack
Definitely weird! I smell a job for a linter though. If you had just happened to have a two-character string there, it would have quietly succeeded, and left you wondering what was going on - imho rather worse. This isn't something for the language to solve; the same issue would come up if you had something like: a=[1,2,3] b=[4,5,6] c,d=a # oops, mucked up the "a,b" side Or any other iterable. Looks to me like a chance for an informational note from your lint facility, not a change to the language. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
