In <a6679459-fc57-4389-8d43-1e5ed960d...@y18g2000yqy.googlegroups.com> Subhabrata Banerjee <subhagurgaon2...@gmail.com> writes:
> (i) I have a file of lists. Now, the first digit starts with a number > or index, like, > [001, "Obama", "USA", "President"] > [002 "Major", "UK", "PM"] > [003 "Singh", "INDIA", "PM"] > Initially, I am reading the file and taking as > for line in file: > line_word=line.split > print line_word This isn't your actual code. Please show us your real code, along with a sample of your input file. > (ii) My second question is posted by one of my colleagues, what makes > Python so fast? Fast compared to what? Why does your colleague believe it should be slower? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list