On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:06:25 +0300 Yuri Slobodyanyuk <yuri.slobodyan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks everybody , and especially Chris - i used split and it took me 15 > mins to make it work :)
That's great. One thing though... > for nnn in hhh: > if nnn.split()[2] == str(time_tuple[1]).strip(' \t\n\r') and > nnn.split()[4] == str(time_tuple[0]).strip(' \t\n\r') and nnn.split()[3] > == str(time_tuple[2]).strip(' \t\n\r') : You are running split() on the same string three times and running strip on the same time tuple each time through the loop. I know that you shouldn't optimize before testing for bottlenecks but this is just egrecious as well as making it more difficult to read. Consider this. year = str(time_tuple[0]) # strip() not really needed here mon = str(time_tuple[1]) day = str(time_tuple[2]) for nnn in [x.split() for x in hhh]: if nnn[2] == mon and nnn[3] = day and nnn[4] = year: If strip() were needed you could leave off the argument. The default is to strip all whitespace from both ends. In fact, read up on locales to see why it is a good idea to omit the argument. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list