[Techtalk] help with python script for batch useradd

[Aaron Malone]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 14:34, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Welcome back!

Thanks. :)

> # python mass_add.py < newusers-deb  > passwords.out
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "mass_add.py", line 24, in ?
>     username, realname = line.split(':')
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
[snip]
> I used this list:
>
> dawns,Dawn Marie Schroder,,,,foo
> nikitah,Nikita Horse,,123-4567,equine
> rubst,Rubs The Cat,101,,234-5678,,

Ah, okay.  The problem is that my script is written to use colon as the 
field delimiter, and you're using a comma.  Either change the first 
comma in each of the input lines to a colon, or change line 24 of the 
script to read:
    username, realname = line.split(',', 1)
Note that you MUST include the 1 in that if you want to use comma -- 
otherwise you'll end up splitting the string at every comma.
-- 
Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net