Why is Python so slow?

[Gaetan Corneau]

William,

> > I am just learning Python and I wrote a little program to 
> modify a text file
> > with 120,000 lines. It took 1hr and 30 mins. I wrote a C 
> program that
> > created the text file from a .dbf and it only took 2 mins.

Please post your code, something is wrong. I processed hundred of files,
containing over a million of C++ code in much less than 1h30.
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