> On the other hand, if you've already planned another pass over the code, that might be the time to look into this.
Exactly. And when I do that pass I will definitely try buffering the data 10 or 100 meg at a time before entring the 1 char-at-a-time loop, or using mmap to similar ends. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
