> The problem I have is that it takes just over two minuted to execute the > 3000 insert statements which seems really slow!
Are you creating a new DB connection for every insert? I just did a test on my system (Athlon 2500+), 3000 rows with an auto_increment field and a randomly generated 128 character field. 1.9 seconds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list