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. > Partly because the answer is loosely related and partly because of the humour quotient, I thought this response to using regex's to parse HTMLs (which is perhaps more challenging in general than XMLs) was quite an interesting read. Note this response could be considered a bit OT so don't take it too seriously in the context of this thread's discussion. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
