Re^5: Poorly written script

[amarquis]

I'm sure a more experienced monk will tackle larger issues better than I can (I think your biggest issue might be multiple similar iterations over data that could be done in one loop, but I didn't examine it closely).

I've found in the past that I can get decent speed gains with very little effort by replacing many repeated print statements with a response string that I keep adding to statement by statement and eventually print.

Again, in this case you have problems to tackle that overshadow any slowness from repeated prints, but it is food for thought for your other pages/scripts.

Edit: Graff's post above is great. Besides the speed benefit of going from "do file1, do file2, do file3, etc." to a single pass or a loop is that it will be much easier to modify/extend your code.