We inherited this Apache/CGI app, with ~15 HTML pages, generated by CGI Python scripts importing a ton of modules each time. Not exactly lightning fast, plus the code's a total mix of Python with HTML fragments :( Awaiting a complete revamp of the app, we replaced Apache/CGI with a threaded Twisted TCP server, sitting memory-resident with "everything" imported, and sending back HTML as requested by javascript/tiny applet in the browser. Form <INPUT>s and cookies are passed from javascript to Python as text-represented dictionaries. The modifications to the Python code were minor; the performance boost is ... dramatic (the users are cheering). Comments? Anyone done something similar? What do we tell the purists? Thanks, Harald _____________________________________________ Harald Nyman MSc, AstraZeneca Mölndal, Sweden