Dr. Pastor schrieb: > I need a row of 127 bytes that I will use as a > circular buffer. Into the bytes (at unspecified times) > a mark (0<mark<128) will be written, one after the other. > After some time the "buffer" will contain the last 127 marks. > (A pointer will point to the next byte to write to.) > What would be the Pythonic way to do the above? > Thanks for any guidance.
Use a list, use append and slicing on it: max_size = 10 buffer = [] for i in xrange(100): buffer.append(i) buffer[:] = buffer[-max_size:] print buffer Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list