On 21 Mar 2005 19:32:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can i do something like this? > > if code == CODE1: > data = 0x0 > While True: > len = len - 1 > if len == -1: > break > buffer = data > > Do i need to initialze the buffer?
Please, forget everything you know about memory, pointers, and C idiom. Also, considering doing the python tutorial. There is one provided here: http://python.org/doc/tut Basically, you're not approaching this in a python-like way, and thus what should be a single line (i.e. 'return data') you're trying to turn into a painful process of copying data from one memory location to another. This is acceptable in the C world, and not appropriate in the python world. I would suggest you define your problem in broader terms (i.e. "I am trying to interpret data that is coming over a socket, my packet structure looks like this ..., how do I marshall dispatch that to callbacks so I can talk the protocol properly? Here is a link to the working C code http://...";) and there is a large group of wonderful people here that would love to show you the pythonic way of achieving your goal. -- Stephen Thorne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
