Why is Python so slow?

[Fiona Czuczman]

William Dandreta wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Both programs ran on the same machine (486-133mhz) under Concurrent DOS (a
> multi-user mutitasking OS).
> 
> The Python version was 1.2.

I'm thinking this is a typo... in an earlier mail William was having
trouble compiling Python 1.5.2 ... so, I don't think the version for the
test was the problem.....

-F.