Performance options for sys.stdout.writelines

[Gribouillis]

I wanted to see if there was a simple way to expedite processing the sys.stdout.writelines portion

If you send 20MB to sys.stdout, the time that it takes depends on what sys.stdout actually is. If you are writing to a terminal, it will take a lot of time. On the other hand if sys.stdout is a file in RAM, it will take very little time. There are many other options such as a pipe a socket or whatever. I'm not sure the performance issue is on the Python side.