OpenCV python: ValueError: too many values to unpack

Question

I\'m writing an opencv program and I found a script on another stackoverflow question: Computer Vision: Masking a human hand

When I run the scripted answer, I get th

Answer 1

No big deal, just you might be using open-cv 3.something, which returns 3 values at the point of error and you must be catching only 2, just add any random variable before the contours variable -

_,contours,_ = cv2.findContours(skin_ycrcb, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)