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Subject: Perl to Python again
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:42:24 -0500
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So, now I need to split a string in a way that the first element goes 
into a string and the others in a list:

while($line = <STDIN>) {

     my ($s,@values)  = split /\t/,$line;

I am trying with:

for line in sys.stdin:
     s,values = line.strip().split("\t")
     print(s)

but no luck:

ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)

What's the elegant python way to achieve this?

Thanks