Increase the speed of this python code for text processing I need to iterate through a file of words and perform tests on them.

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
        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


I have a problem set of 35,498,500 individual lines, and I need to try to get it to run in roughly 3 minutes. The current run times are 16 minutes. 

Is there any way to speed this up? Thanks all!
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