On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:00:47 -0400, Shawn Minisall wrote: > I'm trying to unpack a list of 5 floats from a list read from a file and > python is telling me 5 variables are too many for the string.split > statement.
Please post the *real* message which I suspect is something like 'too many values to unpack', which is the other way around. The 5 names are not enough to take all the items from the split. > #read in data line by line > for line in infile: > mylist = string.split(line) Functions in the `string` module that are also available as methods on strings are deprecated. > firstName[counter] = mylist[0] > lastName[counter] = mylist[1] > grades[counter] = float(mylist[2]) > print firstName[counter], > lastName[counter],":","\t\t",grades[counter] > #increment counter > counter = counter + 1 Do you really need the counter? Can't you just append the values to the lists? > #calculates and prints average score > grades = str(grades) > num1, num2, num3, num4, num5 = string.split(grades,",") > average = float(num1 + num2 + num3 + num4 + num5) / 5 This is very strange. You have a list of floats (I guess), convert that list to a string, split that string at commas, concatenate the *strings* between commas and then try to convert it to a `float`!? This is likely not what you want and should fail in most cases anyway. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list