newbie help

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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


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

Is this the best way to do this?
Thanks,
-Joe