problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread harold
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 :

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Tim Chase
for a,b,c,d in line.split() : [snip] The output (when given the data I want to parse) is: ['0.0','1','0.04','0'] You'll notice that you're not passing any parameters to split(). By default, it splits on whitespace, and your input doesn't have any whitespace in it. Thus, you're

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Rene Pijlman
harold: The output (when given the data I want to parse) is: If you'd told us that data, and told us what version of Python you're using, we could have reproduced the problem to look into it. ValueError: need more than 3 values to unpack Why does python think that I want to unpack the outcome

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Gerard Flanagan
harold wrote: 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

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread harold
Rene Pijlman schrieb: harold: The output (when given the data I want to parse) is: If you'd told us that data, and told us what version of Python you're using, we could have reproduced the problem to look into it. Thank you for the answers and sorry that I did not provide more information

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread harold
Thank you Gerard. This must be the problem. Now I can get it working. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Sáb, 2006-04-22 às 09:21 -0700, harold escreveu: for line in sys.stdin : try : for a,b,c,d in line.split() : pass except ValueError , err : print line.split() raise err Try this: for a, b, c, d in sys.stdin: print a, b, c, d --

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Rene Pijlman
harold: A similar error happens in an interpreter session, when typing for line in [1 2 3 4] : ...for a,b,c,d in line.split() : ...pass ... Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 2, in ? ValueError: need more than 1 value tyo unpack maybe this might help to track down

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Sáb, 2006-04-22 às 14:25 -0300, Felipe Almeida Lessa escreveu: Em Sáb, 2006-04-22 às 09:21 -0700, harold escreveu: for line in sys.stdin : try : for a,b,c,d in line.split() : pass except ValueError , err : print line.split() raise

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread Gerard Flanagan
harold wrote: Thank you Gerard. This must be the problem. Now I can get it working. Good! I got confused thinking about it too, but I think you just had one loop too many. for line in sys.stdin : try : a,b,c,d = line.split() not: for line in sys.stdin : try : for

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread harold
Thanks for all your answer! Of course, I wanted to assign the outcome of the split(), not to iterate over them. Thinks are done so easy in python that, sometimes, one does not even notice that one actually does them ;-) Cheers, - harold - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems when unpacking tuple ...

2006-04-22 Thread John Machin
On 23/04/2006 2:21 AM, harold wrote: Dear all, Maybe I stared on the monitor for too long, because I cannot find the bug ... You already have your answer, but below are clues on how to solve such problems much faster by yourself. My script transition_filter.py starts with the following