Tiago Saboga wrote: > Em Segunda 11 Setembro 2006 12:24, Kent Johnson escreveu: >> Tiago Saboga wrote: >>> Em Segunda 11 Setembro 2006 11:15, Kent Johnson escreveu: >>>> Tiago Saboga wrote: >>>> How big is the XML? 25 seconds is a long time...I would look at >>>> cElementTree (implementation of ElementTree in C), it is pretty fast. >>>> http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm >>> It's about 10k. Hey, it seems easy, but I'd like not to start over again. >>> Of course, if it's the only solution... 25 (28, in fact, for the cp man >>> page) isn't really acceptable. >> That's tiny! No way it should take 25 seconds to parse a 10k file. >> >> Have you tried saving the file separately and parsing from disk? That >> would help determine if the interprocess pipe is the problem. > > Just tried, and - incredible - it took even longer: 46s. But in the second > run > it came back to 25s. I really don't understand what's going on. I did some > other tests, and I found that all the code before "parser.parse(stout)" runs > almost instantly; it then takes all the running somewhere between this call > and the first event; and the rest is almost instantly again. Any ideas?
What did you try, buffering or reading from a file? If parsing from a file takes 25 secs, I am amazed... > > By the way, I've read the pages you indicated at effbot, but I don't see > where > to begin. Do you know of a gentler introduction to this module > (cElementTree)? The main ElementTree page is here, but try parsing from a file first, your file is so small... http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
