Alex> Unfortunately my len(IN) is about 100.000 and the running time Alex> about 15h !!!! :(
Alex> Any idea to improve it? numpy? http://numpy.scipy.org/ http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_Example_List More immediately, note that you are building a list of len(IN) ints every time through the inner loop. A quick hit might be this simple change: indexes = range(len(IN)) for i in indexes: #scan all elements of the list IN for j in indexes: if i != j: if (IN[i].coordinates[0] == IN[j].coordinates[0] and IN[i].coordinates[1] == IN[j].coordinates[1]): SN.append(IN[i].label) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list