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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:16:56 +0100
From: Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org>
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Am 08.12.2011 15:47, schrieb Robert Kern:
> Would including the respective numbers help your thought processes?
> ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2, got 3)

Not possible in the general case (as the right-hand side might be an 
arbitrary iterable/iterator...).

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--- Heiko.