Joachim Worringen wrote: > I need to process large lists (in my real application, this is to parse > the content of a file).
Then you probably want to use generators instead of lists. The problem with large lists is that they eat a lot of memory - which can result in swapping . > I noticed that the performance to access the > individual list elements degrades over runtime. I leave this point to gurus, but it may have to do with swapping. Also, this is not real-time, so variations may have to do with your OS tasks scheduler. My 2 cents -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list