newbie help

[andrea]

ashtonn at gmail.com wrote:

> I want to pass and index number  and a file name from the command line.
> This index number corresponds to a buffer. I need to maintain 2 such
> buffers for my test.
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Passing options is very easy, just import sys and you can find your 
options in sys.argv.
To do something more complicated you should use getopt, or even more 
complicated optparse.

> In C you would do someting like this
> unsigned char buf1[512];
>
> In python is this as simple as?
> buf 1 = 512
> buf 2 = 512
> And how do i keep track of buf1 and buf2
> Thanks.
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> Thanks.
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I think I didn't understand the question, can't you just use a list??