bgs wrote: >Hmm, it looks like the dot operator has been overloaded to do something >complicated. (although if you haven't already, try "for i in nodes: >pass" just to make sure). Is it retrieving the data from the network > > I tried that (the pass), that runs fast as it should
>somewhere? If so, then it looks like it is probably retrieving each >coordinate individually on each iteration of the loop. Perhaps there >is some way of retrieving them all in one bunch? > > I guess it is looking up the node locations from the database with individual queries. As the source for the interface is not provided (only pyc) I will not find out. >It's difficult to say more without knowing anything about abaqus and >its interface. > I'll look for a 'heap lookup', otherwise I'll have to do text parsing... Thanks loads anyway Wout -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list