well that would definitely cause your error.
The string.split sends the list to a, but after that it's looking for
something to assign to l and there's nothing leftover from the command
for it to assign.
On 10/18/05, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> l = []
> > >>>a='1|2|3|4'
> > >>> l=a.split('|')
> > >>>l
> > ['1', '2', '3', '4']
> >> and stupid question of the morning (for me)
> >>
> >> i want to string.split() into a sequence, a la
> >>
> >> l = []
> >> l = myString.split('|')
> >>
> >> but, of course it whines about too many values. what is the
> >> common way to do this?
>
> maybe it's that i am actually doing
>
> l = []
> a, l = string.split('|')
>
> ?
>
>
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