Python 3 - ValueError not enough values to unpack expected 3 got 2

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I have a problem with my Python 3 program  I use Mac OS X  This code is running properly     - - coding  utf-8 - -    python3   sendDuesReminders py - Sends emails based on payment status in spreadsheet   import openpyxl  smtplib  sys     Open the spreadsheet and get the latest dues status  wb   openpyxl load workbook  duesRecords xlsx   sheet   wb get sheet by name  Sheet1    lastCol   sheet max column latestMonth   sheet cell row 1  column lastCol  value    Check each member s payment status  unpaidMembers      for r in range 2  sheet max row   1   payment   sheet cell row r  column lastCol  value if payment     zaplacone       name   sheet cell row r  column 2  value     lastname   sheet cell row r  column 3  value     email   sheet cell row r  column 4  value     unpaidMembers name    email     Log in to email account  smtpObj   smtplib SMTP SSL  smtp gmail com   465  smtpObj ehlo   smtpObj login  abc abc com    1234       Send out reminder emails  for name  email in unpaidMembers items   body    Subject   s - przypomnienie o platnosci raty za treningi GIT Parkour               n nPrzypominamy o uregulowaniu wplaty za uczestnictwo   s w treningach GIT Parkour w               n nRecords show  that you have not paid dues for  s  Please make             this payment as soon as possible    latestMonth  name  latestMonth  print  Sending email to  s       email  sendmailStatus   smtpObj sendmail  abc abc com   email  body   if sendmailStatus            print  There was a problem sending email to  s   s     email      sendmailStatus   smtpObj quit  enter code here   Problems starts when I am trying to add next value to the for loop     Send out reminder emails  for name  lastname  email in unpaidMembers items   body    Subject   s - przypomnienie o platnosci raty za treningi GIT Parkour               n nPrzypominamy o uregulowaniu wplaty za uczestnictwo   s  s w treningach GIT Parkour w               n nRecords show  that you have not paid dues for  s  Please make             this payment as soon as possible    latestMonth  name  lastname  latestMonth  print  Sending email to  s       email  sendmailStatus   smtpObj sendmail  abc abc com   email  body    Terminal shows error   Traceback  most recent call last       File  sendDuesEmailReminder py   line 44  in  lt module gt          for name  email  lastname in unpaidMembers items    ValueError  not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2

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Since unpaidMembers is a dictionary it always returns two values when called with  items   -  key  value   You may want to keep your data as a list of tuples   name  email  lastname    name  email  lastname

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In this line   for name  email  lastname in unpaidMembers items      unpaidMembers items   must have only two values per iteration   Here is a small example to illustrate the problem   This will work   for alpha  beta  delta in    first    second    third         print  alpha    alpha   beta    beta   delta    delta    This will fail  and is what your code does   for alpha  beta  delta in    first    second         print  alpha    alpha   beta    beta   delta    delta    In this last example  what value in the list is assigned to delta  Nothing  There aren t enough values  and that is the problem

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You probably want to assign the lastname you are reading out here  lastname   sheet cell row r  column 3  value   to something  currently the program just forgets it  you could do that two lines after  like so  unpaidMembers name    lastname  email   your program will still crash at the same place  because  items   still won t give you 3-tuples but rather something that has this structure   name   lastname  email    good news is  python can handle this  for name   lastname  email  in unpaidMembers items      etc

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1  First should understand the error meaning  Error not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2  means   a 2 part tuple  but assign to 3 values  and I have written demo code to show for you       usr bin python   - - coding  utf-8 - -   Function  Showing how to understand ValueError  not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2     Author  Crifan Li   Update  20191212  def notEnoughUnpack           Showing how to understand python error  not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2            a dict  which single key s value is two part tuple     valueIsTwoPartTupleDict              name1     lastname1    email1             name2     lastname2    email2                 Test case 1  got value from key     gotLastname  gotEmail   valueIsTwoPartTupleDict  name1     OK     print  gotLastname  s  gotEmail  s     gotLastname  gotEmail         gotLastname  gotEmail  gotOtherSomeValue   valueIsTwoPartTupleDict  name1     - gt  ValueError not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2         Test case 2  got from dict items       for eachKey  eachValues in valueIsTwoPartTupleDict items            print  eachKey  s  eachValues  s     eachKey  eachValues         same as following        Background knowledge  each of dict items   return  key  values        here above eachValues is a tuple of two parts     for eachKey   eachValuePart1  eachValuePart2  in valueIsTwoPartTupleDict items            print  eachKey  s  eachValuePart1  s  eachValuePart2  s     eachKey  eachValuePart1  eachValuePart2         but following      for eachKey   eachValuePart1  eachValuePart2  eachValuePart3  in valueIsTwoPartTupleDict items      will - gt  ValueError not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2          pass  if   name         main         notEnoughUnpack     using VSCode debug effect     2  For your code  for name  email  lastname in unpaidMembers items      but error ValueError  not enough values to unpack  expected 3  got 2   means each item a tuple value  in unpaidMembers  only have 1 parts email  which corresponding above code      unpaidMembers name    email   so should change code to   for name  email in unpaidMembers items      to avoid error   But obviously you expect extra lastname  so should change your above code to      unpaidMembers name     email  lastname    and better change to better syntax   for name   email  lastname  in unpaidMembers items      then everything is OK and clear

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ValueErrors  In Python  a value is the information that is stored within a certain object  To encounter a ValueError in Python means that is a problem with the content of the object you tried to assign the value to   in your case name lastname and email 3 parameters are there but unpaidmembers only contain 2 of them       name  lastname  email in unpaidMembers items     so you should refer data   or your code might be   lastname  email in unpaidMembers items     or   name  email in unpaidMembers items

[python] Python 3 - ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 2)

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