Error: “dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required” on Django 1.4

Question

I have an error message on django 1.4:

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

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Answer 1

Error in your question is raised when you try something like following:

>>> a_dictionary = {}
>>> a_dictionary.update([[1]])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

It's hard to tell where is the cause in your code unless you show your code, full traceback.

Answer 2

Here is the reproduced error.

>>> d = {}
>>> d.update([(1,)])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
>>> 
>>> d
{}
>>> 
>>> d.update([(1, 2)])
>>> d
{1: 2}
>>> 
>>> d.update('hello_some_string')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>  
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
>>> 

If you give the sequence and any element length is 1 and required two then we will get this kind of error. See the above code. First time I gave the sequence with tuple and it's length 1, then we got the error and dictionary is not updated. second time I gave inside tuple with with two elements, dictionary got updated.