i was actually experimenting on windows on my own pc before the workstation arrived, and IDLE printed a lot faster on windows than in solaris for me too.
i would indeed complain to sun if i had ever got the impression that anyone over there ever knew what was going on... : ) > but on the other hand, IDLE runs your sample script in less than 0.5 > seconds on my cheap Windows box. complain to Sun ;-) > > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list