Juan Huertas wrote: > Reading a large file and loading to a list: > > f=open('c:/xx','rb') > ls=[] > while not eof: > ln=f.readline() > ls.append(ln) > > This takes 5 seconds (reasonable) This code is a little nonsensical. Could you post real code that can be tested? ## Jason Orendorff http://www.jorendorff.com/