Help with code! "Too many values to unpack"

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Code:

def view():
    with open("passwords.txt", 'r') as f:
        for line in f.readlines():
            data = line.rstrip()
            user, passw = data.split("|")
            print("User:", user, "| Password:", passw)

Error message:

`File "c:\Users\Josh Lee\Python\Hello World\password_manager.py", line 27, in <module>
    view()
  File "c:\Users\Josh Lee\Python\Hello World\password_manager.py", line 8, in view
    user, passw = data.split("|")
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)

This is my code. I have tried to change line 8, but it’ll say too little expected (expected: 2 got:1) and then it’ll show this. I’ve been stuck on this for a while and would like some pointers on where I can improve the code

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Please don’t post screenshots.

Copy and paste any code or traceback, and in order to preserve formatting, select the code or traceback that you posted and then click the </> button.

What is the value of data? What is the value of data.split("|")? Print them out to check what they actually are.

Also, I find it strange that the code says data.split("|") but the traceback appears to say data.split("| "). Note the extra space in the string.

3

ok i got rid of the screenshot, thanks! ok ill play around with it and see if anything changes but so far it still hasn’t worked

4

It seems the problem is that some line do not have a “|” character, thus data.split("|") does not return two parts but one.