#!/usr/bin/python import re import time import sys str = 'abcdefgh'+'efghefgh' imax = 1024 / len(str) * 512 starttime = time.time(); sys.stdout.flush() gstr = '' i = 0 while (i < imax+1000): i = i + 1 gstr += str gstr = re.sub('efgh','____',gstr) lngth = len(str) * i if (lngth % (1024*256) == 0): print int(time.time()-starttime),"sec\t\t",(lngth/1024),"kb" sys.stdout.flush()