On Nov 18, 2:05 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with this function I went from 8.04 s to 6.61 s.
And your code became less understandable. > Now running up against > my limited knowledge of python. Any chance of getting faster? You have saved 1.4 *seconds*. What is the normal running time for this app with 0.5M records? What is 1.4 seconds as a percentage of that? Please consider that you are barking up the wrong gum tree. Competing with a C app on speed is not something that experienced Python programmers would take on lightly. Talk to your colleague about some of these factors: time to write code, robustness, clarity, ease of maintenance. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
