"Bryan Fodness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > d, fs1, fs2, fs3, fs4, fs5, fs6, fs7, fs8, fs9, fs10, > fs11, fs12, fs13, fs14, fs15, fs16, fs17, fs18, fs19, > fs20, fs21, fs22, fs23, fs24, fs25, fs26, fs27, fs28, > fs29, fs30, fs31, fs32, fs33, fs34, fs35, fs36, fs37, > fs38, fs39, fs40 = line.split()
Because your tuple spans multiple lines I think you will need to put parens round it. >>> a,b,c,d Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in ? NameError: name 'a' is not defined >>> (a,b,c,d ... So starting with a paren tells Python to ignore the newline. Without it it gets confused about what you want to do. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor