Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Gary Robinson wrote: > >> We're using xml.sax.xmlreader in our app (http://www.goombah.com, >> which is written in Python). >> >> In Python 2.3.x, does that use the C-language expat under the hood? > > yes. > >> The reason I'm asking is because we're wondering if we can speed up >> the parsing significantly. > > if you want speed, you don't really want any of the xml.sax or xml.dom > stuff. I'm a bit biased, but I'd recommend the iterparse interface to > cElementTree
or to lxml (if you want to do more than just parsing): http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/1.1alpha Why? http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks http://codespeak.net/lxml/performance.html#parsing-and-serialising Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
