On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Anton Slesarev <slesarev.anton at gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to increase file reading performance? Dunno about that, but this part: > flines = (line for line in f if pat.search(line)) > c=0 > for x in flines: > c+=1 > print c could be rewritten as just: print sum(1 for line in f if pat.search(line))