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On May 7, 5:14 am, Merrigan <charl.loub... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 10:18 am, Steven D'Aprano
>
>
>
> <ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 May 2007 00:28:14 -0700, Merrigan wrote:
> > > 1. I have the script popping all the files that need to be checked into
> > > a list, and have it parsing the list for everything...Now the problem is
> > > this : The sever needs to check (at the moment) 375 files and eliminate
> > > those that don't need reuploading. This number will obviously get bigger
> > > and bigger as more files gets uploaded. Now, the problem that I'm having
> > > is that the script is taking forever to parse the list and give the
> > > final result. How can I speed this up?
>
> > By writing faster code???
>
> > It's really hard to answer this without more information. In particular:
>
> > - what's the format of the list and how do you parse it?
>
> > - how does the script decide what files need uploading?
>
> > --
> > Steven.
>
> Hi, Thanx for the reply,
>
> The Script it available at this url :http://www.lewendewoord.co.za/theScript.py
>
> P.S. I know it looks like crap, but I'm a n00b, and not yet through
> the OOP part of the tutorial.
>
> Thanx in advance!

Do you have access to the machine via ssh?  I would try to get away
from FTP and use rsync for this kind of thing if possible.

~Sean