Help optimize a script?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> 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?
> 

1.5.2 has join, it lives in the string module.  Frankly I can not stand the
syntax he suggested.  Looks more like perl's line noise than easy to read and
write python.

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