title: Extracting items from a list and assigning them to variables
body: <p>I'm trying to extract the first three items from <code>numbers</code>, and assign them to three different variables, as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10]
  [first_item, second_item, third_item] = numbers
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why am I getting this error?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "test.py", line 2, in &lt;module&gt;
      [first_item, second_item, third_item] = numbers
  ValueError: too many values to unpack
  </code></pre>