Jack Diederich <jackd...@gmail.com> added the comment: I was looking at 3.x, JP's patch is relative to 2.x and takes a little more unpacking (a couple function calls more) but looks to me to be the same. In 2.x unpack_iterable() sets/returns an error once one item more than is required is received. It doesn't give any more information about known-length builtins than anything else. The same error is raised for million-item lists as three item lists if the expected number to unpack is two.
The original feature request was that the error message be better if, say the left hand side wanted three arguments and the right hand side provided four. The ceval.c code is different between 2.x and 3.x but they both only check for 'exactly the right number, or one or more too many.' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3071> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
