Python IO performance?

[Aahz]

In article <20030605.091105.719346228.1211 at nets.com>,
Jay O'Connor <joconnor at nets.com> wrote:
>
>Since Perl is highly tuned to types of problems that use a lot of I/O,
>especially disk I/O,  I'm not really surprised it has highly tuned disk
>I/O routines.  Python, to me, can do those kinds of problems, but it's
>not really it's strength, so I don't image high-performance I/O to be a
>priority

It's not that I/O is a !priority for Python, it's that writing portable
code is usually a higher priority.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not
start writing it."  --Dijkstra