Python optimization (was Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?)

[John Nagle]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Regardless of the possibility of speeding it up - why should one want 
> this? Coding speed is more important than speed of coding in 90%+ of all 
> cases. 

     When you have to start buying more servers for the server farm,
it's a real pain.  I'm actually facing that because Python's HTML
parsing is so slow.

				John Nagle