Hieu Hoang wrote: > So, this command assigns 2 values (x and foo) to 3 variables (x, foo > and bar), which raises that exception. I'm not sure why python says > "need more than 2 values to unpack" not "need 3 values" though.
probably because if you look at the call site x,foo,bar=shuf(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) it's more helpful to learn that "shuf" returned 2 values than to learn that the code you're looking at requires three values. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list