Operations without converting to Int

[dursalakihoegalo]

I was trying INOUTEST. The best I could come up with was 16.62 sec.

import sys
import psyco
psyco.full()
def main():
    s = sys.stdin
    t = s.readline()
    for l in s:
        n, m = map(int, l.split())
        print n*m
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Is there a way to process inputs without converting n and m to integers? Please give me a hint of it.

[numerix]

Is there a way to process inputs without converting n and m to integers? Please give me a hint of it.

You can implement your own multiplication using strings, but I doubt that will be faster ...

The code is far away from being optimal (if only speed matters).
- read the psyco manual
- do some experiments on your local machine with different ways of reading and writing data
- find out the bottleneck(s) this way and try to make them wider
- be creative ...

[dursalakihoegalo]

Thanx numerix. I dream of being a python programmer like you. I will do it and tell you. I read that multiplication in python is already karatsuba. I was thinking the best was sys.stdin to take inputs. Thanx.