On 11/30/18 7:35 AM, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
... but isn't it logical that the string is parsed and split, and then later the unpacking operation fails with an IndexError?
With slightly simpler code and the full text of the exception, the details becomes more apparent: >>> x, y = [4] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1) Python validates that the right hand side contains exactly the right number of elements before beginning to unpack, presumably to ensure a successful operation before failing part way through. Effectively, Python is saying that you can't unpack a one-element array into two pieces *before* it gets to the indexing logic. HTH, Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
