this is the entire script and its running on its own. This script cycles trough thousands of .txt files and just prints their contents. Though it quickly starts to slow down. First they print at a very high rate but after a short while it slows to maybe 4 prints per second the txts get printed in the cmd count=1 nofframes=35952 for i in range(0, nofframes): f = open("C:/insert/file/location/print"+str(count)+".txt", 'r') c=f.read() line_count = c.count('\n') print (line_count) for i in range(0,line_count): end = end+"\033[F" print(c, end=str(end)) f.close() count=count+1 i've tried to make sure the f.close() function actually closes the file, but not sure how to debug that. Continue reading...