On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Chris Fuller, 21.12.2010 03:27: >> >> This isn't XML, it's an abomination of XML. Best to not treat it as XML. >> Good thing you're only after one class of tags. Here's what I'd do. I'll >> give a general solution, but there are two parameters / four cases that >> could >> make the code simpler, I'll just point them out at the end. >> >> Iterate over the file descriptor, reading in line-by-line. This will be >> slow >> on a huge file, but probably not so bad if you're only doing it once. > > Note that it's not unlikely that this is actually *slower* than using a real > XML parser: >
Or a 'real' language like C or C++ maybe to increase, or in Python's case, bypass, the interpreter? > http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
