Increase the speed of this python code for text processing
Getting rid of the print statement fixed it thanks all!

import multiprocessing
import datetime

class line_Worker(object):
    def worker(self, chunks):
        for l in chunks:
            num = 0
            for num in range(100):
                print l, num#clearing this made the time 4 seconds thanks all!!
        return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    lines = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in open('words.txt')] #opens file and saves to list
    chunkNum = len(lines) / 26
    wordLists = [lines[x:x + chunkNum] for x in range(0, len(lines), chunkNum)]#divides list by 4 and saves to list of lists
    jobs = []
    timeStart = str(datetime.datetime.now())

    for i in range(27):
        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=line_Worker().worker, args=(wordLists[i],))
        jobs.append(p)
        p.start()
    for p in jobs:
        p.join()  # wait for the process to finish

    timeStop = str(datetime.datetime.now())

    print timeStart
    print timeStop