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Python Functions, Packing, and Unpacking Packing and Unpacking Unpacking Challenge

Aaron Welborn
Aaron Welborn
9,299 Points
Posted by Aaron Welborn
Aaron Welborn
9,299 Points

I don't see why it isn't passing the check

I have checked in the workspace, and in a separate IDE and both show that val has the correct tuple, yet it keeps saying it's not right. What am I doing wrong?

unpacking.py 
def unpacker(*args):
    val1, val2 = args
    return val1, val2

val = unpacker('Python', 'rocks!')

1 Answer

Mark Sebeck
MOD
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,905 Points

Hi Aaron. The question says "so that the tuple returned from the function call is unpacked into 2 variables, val1, val2"

You actually dont need to change the function (but what you have is ok to pass the challenge). You just need to set val1 and val2 to the unpacked values returned from the funnction. You are just unpacking into val instead of val1, val2. Hope this helps. Keep at it!