On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 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) > A regex is the simplest IMHO, because you need not know the syntax of the minidom parser. But, again i have seen this quiet often that lack of knowledge of regexp has led people to other solutions (the grapes are sour!) > I don't know of any python programmers who are speed-maniacs. I am worried > anytime someone programs in something else than assembly/machine code and > uses the latter word. The rest of us are just trading off development speed > vs. runtime speed. > Hang around in #django or #python. The most elegant code that you *should* write would invariably be pretty fast (am not ref to asm). _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
