On 31/01/06, Andrew D. Fant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when I try to run it, I get a "ValueError: too many values to unpack" which I
> think comes from the fact that there is a subdirectory of /foo/bar which has
> over 2500 files in it. The tree can't be easily restructured for legacy
> reasons. Can anyone suggest the best way to get around this in code?
No, this means you are trying to unpack a tuple but you don't have
enough variables to do so.
example:
>>> x, y = (1, 2, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: too many values to unpack
Assuming the code you have given is copied-and-pasted directly, the
error is on this line:
> for (dirpath. subdirs, filenames) in os.walk("/foo/bar"):
Do you see that '.' after dirpath? It should be a comma :-) What
you've done is something like this:
>>> x.y, z = (1, 2, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: too many values to unpack
IMO, it's a somewhat misleading error message. If the arities lined
up, you'd get:
>>> x.y, z = (1, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'x' is not defined
which might give you a better clue as to where the problem is.
HTH!
--
John.
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