On 14 Feb, 19:41, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote: > > I ditto the profiling recommendation. > > http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html (To the original inquirer...) Try this, too: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/Profiling If you have the tools, it's a lot easier than scanning through tables of times. Paul