enjoying the view wrote:
> Imported normally this would work fine. The list given as a parameter
> would be one element larger. But when the stubs are generated, the
> function doesn't return anything and the list is appended in the server
> and the client-side list is left untouched. At first I thought the
> solution was easy, just return the changed parameters and place them in
> the parameter variables in the client stub:
> def add_elm(list):
> send_message({'funcname': 'add_elm', 'args': (list)})
> response = receive_message()
> (list) = response.get('args')
> return response.get('result')
>
> The problem is, this doesn't work. The original list doesn't point to
> the changed list. I have been trying to figure this out and it seems
> that if I just assign to the list variable it just modifies the local
> (to the function) name space, and that those changes aren't reflected
> in the list in the original name space.
Try
list[:] = response.get('args')
this will change the value of the list passed in.
Kent
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