Damian wrote:
> Hi, I'm from an ASP.NET background an am considering making the switch
> to Python. I decided to develop my next project in tandem to test the
> waters and everything is working well, loving the language, etc.
>
> What I've got is:
> two websites, one in ASP.NET v2 and one in Python 2.5 (using 4suite for
> XML/XSLT)
> both on the same box (Windows Server 2003)
> both using the same XML, XSLT, CSS
>
> The problem is, the Python version is (at a guess) about three times
> slower than the ASP one. I'm very new to the language and it's likely
> that I'm doing something wrong here:
>
> from os import environ
> from Ft.Lib.Uri import OsPathToUri
> from Ft.Xml import InputSource
> from Ft.Xml.Xslt import Processor
>
> def buildPage():
> try:
> xsluri = OsPathToUri('xsl/plainpage.xsl')
> xmluri = OsPathToUri('website.xml')
>
> xsl = InputSource.DefaultFactory.fromUri(xsluri)
> xml = InputSource.DefaultFactory.fromUri(xmluri)
>
> proc = Processor.Processor()
> proc.appendStylesheet(xsl)
>
> params = {"url":environ['QUERY_STRING'].split("=")[1]}
> for i, v in enumerate(environ['QUERY_STRING'].split("/")[1:]):
> params["selected_section%s" % (i + 1)] = "/" + v
>
> return proc.run(xml, topLevelParams=params)
> except:
> return "Error blah blah"
>
> print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
> print buildPage()
>
> You can compare the development sites here:
> asp: http://consultum.pointy.co.nz/about/team
> python: http://python.pointy.co.nz/about/team
>
> Cheers!
>
For max speed you might want to try pyrxp:
http://www.reportlab.org/pyrxp.html
-Larry
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