Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Regarding minidom, you might be happier with the xml.etree package that >> comes with Python2.5 and later (it's also avalable for older versions). >> It's a lot easier to use, more memory friendly and also much faster. > > OTOH, choice of XML library is completely irrelevant for the issue at > hand.
For the described problem, maybe. But certainly not for the application. The background was parsing the XML dump of an entire web site, which I would expect to be larger than what minidom is designed to handle gracefully. Switching to cElementTree before major code gets written is almost certainly a good idea here. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
