22-08-2009 o 19:46:51 Kee Nethery wrote:
I'm not sure I know the difference between a string variable and a
literal string. Is the difference as simple as:
somestring = u'hello world'
fromstring(somestring) <-- string variable
vs
XML(u'hello world') <-- literal string
Yes, simply:
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> Kee Nethery (KN) wrote:
>KN> On Aug 22, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>
>>> You can use both, but I suspect parsing from StringIO to be slower than
>>> parsing from the string directly. That's the case for lxml, at least.
>>>
>>> Note that fromstring() behaves the same as XML
