You may want to read through this case study by the BDFL. http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 05:32 pm, Luis P. Mendes wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 1000 line python script that takes many hours to finish. It is > running with six inside 'for' loops. > > I've searched the net for ways to speed up the proccess. > > Psyco improves performance around 3% in this case which is not good enough. > > How can I dramatically improve speed? > > I tried to find some tool that converts Python to C automatically but > couldn't. As I don't know C, I think that weave and PyInline for > example are out of the solution. > > I'm using Linux. > > Luis -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list