On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 00:02, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote: > What if you broke up the read and built the final string object up. I > always assumed this is where the real gain was with read_into. >Matt, I'm not sure what you mean by this - can you suggest the code? Also, I'd be happy to know if anyone else reproduces this as well on other machines/OSes. Eli -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20111125/2a9e3e74/attachment.html>