I'm running the code below in Spyder. I have typed it in a py file and simply hit the run button.
When I try to run it I get the error:
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
As shown here you are meant to give the inputs for the argv variable before running the program but I don't know how to do this is spyder?
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex13.html
from sys import argv
script, first, second, third = argv
print "The script is called:", script
print "The first variable is:", first
print "The second variable is:", second
print "Your third variable is:", third
Answer
To pass argv to a script in Spyder, you need to go the menu entry
Run > Configuration per file
or press the Ctrl+F6 key, then look for the option called
Command line options
on the dialog that appears after that, and finally enter the command line arguments you want to pass to the script, which in this case could be
one two three