ValueError not enough values to unpack expected 11 got 1

Question

I wrote a script for system automation  but I m getting the error described in the title  My code below is the relevant portion of the script  What is the problem   import csv import os  DIR    C  Users Administrator Desktop key list csv   def Customer List csv       customer   open DIR          for line in customer              row                   row  MEM ID                 row  MEM SQ                 row  X AUTH USER                 row  X AUTH KEY                 row  X STORAGE URL                 row  ACCESSKEY                 row  ACCESSKEYID                 row  ACCESSKEY1                 row  ACCESSKEYID1                 row  ACCESSKEY2                 row  ACCESSKEYID2    line split               if csv    row  MEM ID                    customer close                   return row              else                  print   Not search for ID                   return      id input   input  Please input the Customer ID Email      result   Customer List id input   if result      print   iD         id  MEM ID

User · Answer

The error message is fairly self-explanatory

(a,b,c,d,e) = line.split()

expects line.split() to yield 5 elements, but in your case, it is only yielding 1 element. This could be because the data is not in the format you expect, a rogue malformed line, or maybe an empty line - there's no way to know.

To see what line is causing the issue, you could add some debug statements like this:

if len(line.split()) != 11:
    print line

As Martin suggests, you might also be splitting on the wrong delimiter.

User · Answer

For the line  line split     What are you splitting on  Looks like a CSV  so try  line split        Example    one two three  split      returns one element   one two three    one two three  split         returns three elements   one    two    three     As  TigerhawkT3 mentions  it would be better to use the CSV module  Incredibly quick and easy method available here

User · Answer

Looks like something is wrong with your data  it isn t in the format you are expecting  It could be a new line character or a blank space in the data that is tinkering with your code

[python] ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 11, got 1)

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