On Dec 4, 1:31 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry Hill wrote:
> > That's 3 orders of magnitude slower on python3.0! > > Timing of os interaction may depend on os. I verified above on WinXp > with 4 meg Pythonxy.chm file. Eye blink versus 3 secs, duplicated. I > think something is wrong that needs fixing in 3.0.1. > > http://bugs.python.org/issue4533 I believe that the slowdowns are even more substantial when opening the file in text mode. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list