On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM, David Hutto <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Which is *faster*. > > >> http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks >> > -- They're installing the breathalyzer on my email account next week. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
