I have no experience with Python, but my reading of the article suggests compiling an entire program, not single or partial lines of code as VFP does with macro expansion.
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>Craig,
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>Maybe I wasn't too clear regarding this. What I meant was that the .NET implementation is faster than the Win32 implementation (which is written in C). The article that backs this is up is here:
http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/>
>Eyvind.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer