On Nov 10, 4:56 pm, Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would seem to implicate the line id2name[id] = name as being > excruciatingly slow.
As others have pointed out there is no way that this takes 45 minutes.Must be something with your system or setup. A functionally equivalent code for me runs in about 49 seconds! (it ends up using about twice as much ram as the data on disk) i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list