Help optimize a script?

[Joseph Santaniello]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 19:15, Terry Reedy wrote:

[snip]
>
> forms = {
> 'cob': lambda x: (strip(x[0:3], strip(x[3:9], ..., strip(x[22:30]),
> ...}
>
> (This conversion can be done with a fairly simple function.)  Then,
> your program reduces to
>
> new = forms['cob']
> for line in file.xreadlines():
>   print '\t'.join(new(line))

[snip]

Thanks Terry, that resulted in a 5x speed increase!

After compling 2.1.1 for HP-UX so I would have access to the join() method
of sting, I started to wonder how much of this speed increase (if any) is
from just using 2.1.1 over 1.5.2 ?  Any ideas?

Joseph