Re: newbie help

[Kent Johnson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here it is again.
I did something like this.
index is passed from the command line.
def __getBuffer( index):
    if index == 1:
        buf1 = [None] * 512
        print "Buffer: %s" % (buf1)
        return buf1
    elif index == 2:
        buf2 = [None] * 512
        print "Buffer: %s" % (buf2)
        return buf2
Is this the best way to do this?
It's still not clear what you are trying to accomplish. The code above will return a new buffer each 
time. It is equivalent to

def __getBuffer(index):
    buf = [None] * 512
    print "Buffer: %s" % (buf)
    return buf
If your intent is that __getBuffer(1) always returns the *same* buffer, you need to create the 
buffers once. A simple way is this:

buf1 = [None] * 512
buf2 = [None] * 512
def __getBuffer(index):
    if index == 1:
        print "Buffer: %s" % (buf1)
        return buf1
    elif index == 2:
        print "Buffer: %s" % (buf2)
        return buf2
Kent
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