Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com> writes:
[...] > re.search("<distance>\s*(\d+)\s*</distance>",data).group(1) > > would appear to be the most succinct and quite fast. Adjust for whitespace > as and if necessary. Whitespace (including newlines), mixed cases etc. [...] > As far as optimisation goes - I can see at least 3 options > > a. the minidom performance is acceptable - no further optimisation required > b. minidom performance is not acceptable - try the regex one > c. python library performance is not acceptable - switch to 'c' I'd switch b and c. If elementree is not fast enough, I'd switch to celementree and if that's not fast enough, I'd try some hand parsing. > I can imagine people starting with a and then deciding to move along > the path a->b->c if and as necessary. I believe starting with b risks > obfuscating code (imo regex is obfuscated compared to xml nodes - > YMMV) As someone who messed with perl for a long time, I can attest to their power an unmaintainability. I stay away from them unless I really need them. But yes, people like Larry Wall seem to think in a fundamentally different way so YMMV. [...] -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in I tripped over a hole that was sticking up out of the ground. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers