why huge speed difference btwn 1.52 and 2.1?

[Ron Stephens]

I'd like to hear an answer to this also. Have you come up with any ideas? Anyone else???

robin senior wrote:

> I have a pretty simple script for processing a flat file db, running on
> Python 2.1; I tried running it under 1.52 for kicks, and to my surprise it
> ran almost 10 times as fast! Could someone let me know why 2.1 would be so
> much slower?
>
> Cheers,
> -robin
>
> ##################
>
> import re
> import string
>
> states = {
> 'ALABAMA':'AL',
> 'ALASKA':'AK',
> 'ARIZONA':'AZ',
> 'WISCONSIN':'WI',
> 'WYOMING':'WY'}
>
> for year in range(1994, 1998):
>
>     f = open('states/USA'+str(year)+'.TXT')
>     counter = 1
>     while(1):
>         print str(year), counter
>                         counter = counter + 1
>
>         #convert city name to allcaps (change to string.strip(f.readline())
> in 1.5.2)
>         line = string.upper(f.readline().strip())
>
>         #check for EOF
>                         if not line:
>                                     break
>
>                         for state in states.keys():
>             #(STATENAME) OR (STATE ABBREVIATION)
>             if ( (re.search(' '+state+'( |,)', line, re.IGNORECASE)) or
> (re.search(' '+states[state]+'( |,)', line, re.IGNORECASE)) ):
>                 filename = string.replace(state, ' ', '_')
>                                                 g = open('states/'+filename+'/'+str(year)+'.TXT', "a")
>                                                 g.write(line)
>                 g.write("\n")
>                                                 g.close()
>     f.close()