On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > On 12/03/2012 03:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> <snip> >> Is it possible that the error actually came from further up (with a >> faulty line number) and was actually because communicate() somehow >> returned an empty list? That's the only place in the code quoted that >> I'm seeing indexing, but communicate() is supposed to return a tuple, >> not a list. ChrisA > Tuples can also be empty. Try j = () for example, and look at its type > and length. > > No idea if this is the problem, but just wanted to nitpick.
They can, yes, but the error said *list* index out of range. That shouldn't happen off an empty tuple. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list