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. Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
