On 03/01/2014 09:01, Terry Reedy wrote: > There was more speedup in 3.3.2 and possibly even more in 3.3.3, so OP > should run the latter. python 3.3.3 is what I use on windows. As for astral / non-bmp etc etc that's almost irrelevant for the sort of tests we're doing which are mostly simple english text. -- Robin Becker