I need to calculate the average of plastic strain for all steps of a large number of runs. For saving time, I wrote an script to calculate appropriate weight for each of gauss points and saved them in an array.  I call the array and read plastic strain from the odb and then calculate the average of plastic strain. I do this with a simple "for" loop over all integration gauss points. But it take too much long even longer than the time for running the job file. Apparently python take time to read value from odb. Is there any faster way?