newbie help

[Kent Johnson]

ashtonn at gmail.com 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