Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > By using a different encoding than the default encoding for libxml2 makes > the work hard for libxml2 since it requires that every #PCDATA section to be > reencoded to the desired encoding and comparing one string conversion in > python against many string conversion under libxml2, the program gets more > slow performance by using a different encoding than the default encoding.
It's not that much slower, though. http://codespeak.net/lxml/performance.html#parsing-and-serialising Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list