ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

[thestudent]

So I am trying to write a program to use a cypher to code a textfile. There is a textfile holding the cypher, and the program is supposed to ask the user which file they want encoded. This is my program so far

#program
textfile = input("What is the name of the file that holds a cypher?")
code = {}
for line in textfile:
        (char, shadow_char) = line.split()
        code[char]= shadow_char
infile = input("What is the name of the file that holds a text?")
outfile = input("Choose a name of a file where the encoded text should be printed?")

INFILE = open(infile, "r")
OUTFILE = open(outfile, "w")
for line in INFILE:
    for char in sentence:
        if char in code:
            encoded_sentence += code[char]
        else:
            encoded_sentence += char

    OUTFILE.write(sentence+ "\n")
    OUTFILE.write(econded_sentence)
   
INFILE.close()
OUTFILE.close()

i keep getting "ValueError : need more than 1 value to unpack"
for line 4, (char, shadow_char) = line.split()

any help?

[Glenton]

line.split() will just return one value. Your code is trying to assign two variables to the result, so Python is telling you that it does not love this.

Try myChar=line.spl it(), and then myChar[0] for char and myChar[1] for shadow_char.