On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2011/7/29 Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com>: > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> 2011/7/28 Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com>: > >> > parsing using minidom is one of the slowest. if you just want to > extract > >> the > >> > distance and assuming that it(the tag) will always be consistent, then > i > >> > would always suggest regexp. xml parsing is a pain. > >> > >> regexp is a bad solution to parse xml. > >> > >> minidom is the fastest solution if you consider the programmer time > >> instead of developer time. Minidom is available in standard library, > >> you don't have to add another dependency and worry about PyPI > >> downtimes and lxml compilations failures. > >> > >> I don't think there will be significant performance difference between > >> regexp and minidom unless you are doing it a million times. > >> > >> > > Well, i have clearly mentioned my assumptions - i.e, when you treat the > XML > > as a 'string' and do not want > > to retrieve anything else in a 'structured manner'. I am a speed-maniac > and > > crave for speed; so if the assumption is valid, > > i can vouch for the fact that regexp would be faster and neater solution. > I > > have done some speed experiments > > in past on this (results of which i do not have handy), and i found this. > > > > XP asks you implement the best solution with the least effort and i think > in > > this case regexp is a winner. Thoughts can vary though. > > regexp can at the best be a dirty-hack, not a best solution for xml > parsing. > > read again : i am not actually working on 'xml' (see my assumption?). _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
