Dear all, Maybe I stared on the monitor for too long, because I cannot find the bug ... My script "transition_filter.py" starts with the following lines:
import sys for line in sys.stdin : try : for a,b,c,d in line.split() : pass except ValueError , err : print line.split() raise err The output (when given the data I want to parse) is: ['0.0','1','0.04','0'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "transition_filter.py", line 10, in ? raise err ValueError: need more than 3 values to unpack What is going wrong here? Why does python think that I want to unpack the outcome of line.split() into three values instead of four? I must be really tired, but I just cannot see the problem. Any clues?? Thanks, - harold - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list