where python is slower?

[Chris Keyes]

Enrique Palomo wrote:
> Hello all.
>  
> At job, i must work with great size text files (up to 2 Gb)
> I use python cause of its facility to work with strings.
> But python is slower than others programming languages.
>  
> It´s not, by the moment, a big problem, but i would like to speed up the 
> code with C.
>  
> I would like to know where python is slower, reading files, writing, 
> string manipulation...
>  
> I have try with psyco and the results are unpredictable everytime i run 
> the script.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Enrique

Have you looked at mxTextTools 
(http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxTextTools.html) ??