Yet another Python vs. Perl speed issue/question

[Paul Prescod]

nanotech at europa.com wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> Python 2.0 on an HP (nice and big) takes ~30 seconds to lowercase all
> the lines in a 3meg file. Perl takes less than a second. What am I
> doing wrong?!?
> 
> Python
> ------
> import sys
> import string
> 
> stdin=sys.stdin
> lower=string.lower
> 
> print map(lower,stdin.readlines())

My lowly laptop runs this in around a second on 3MB. Something must be
misconfigured on your server. What's Python's startup time like? Just
type "python"? Does it come up quickly?

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    Guido
    indented it.
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