Steve Holden wrote: > > looks like premature non-optimization to me... > > > It might be quicker to establish a dict whose keys are the barred > numbers and use that, rather than a list, to determine whether the input > numbers should make it through.
what do you think > barred = set(open('/home/sjd/python/wip/CBR0000319.dat')) does ? ;-) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list