[Visualpython-users] Speed?!

Hi,

I was very amazed yesterday when I wanted to calculate a simple thing
with Python. I typed

for a in range(200):
    for b in range(200):
        for c in range(200):
            pass

and it took over 10 seconds! I typed the same thing in Borland Delphi
(on the same machine, a Pentium III) and it was immediate. One wouldn't
even realize that it was calculating. In C++ it was slightly slower than
in Delphi, but by far not as slow as Python. Why is it so terribly slow,
even if it doesn't need to calculate anything? Is there a possibility
for accelerating this? 

thanks
Susanne

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