Ertl, John wrote: > I have been using python for sometime...and occasionally I noticed > significant delay before the code would run but unitl now I have been able > to write it off to other things. Now I have a short script that I wrote to > check some files and print out a few lines. > > I have noticed that usually the first time I fire it up in the morning or > after a long time of not running it, it takes 10-15 seconds to run and the > output to the screen is very slow...maybe 1 second per line. If I run it > soon after that it runs and the output is on the screen in less then a > second. I would think this has to do with compiling but I am not sure. Any > ideas how to speed this up?
Compiling is not that slow. Are you files huge? Possibly they are in the disk cache after the first run. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor