> Were you getting this issue with xml.dom showing on first request all > the time, or only occasionally occurring? If the latter, were you > running things in a multithreaded configuration and was the server > being loaded with lots of concurrent requests?
It was the former. > For your particular Python installation, does the '_xmlplus' module > exist? Ie., can you import it as '_xmlplus' or 'xml.doc._xmlplus'? No, it appears I don't have _xmlplus; neither 'import _xmlplus' nor 'import xml.doc._xmlplus' works. My python installation is the default which came with debian 5.0 (i.e., I didn't build it from source with unorthodox configuration options, or use apt). As a final note, I wound up switching to cElementTree for parsing the xml (not only for performance but also because the code is much more concise), and I found that I don't need a full package path with that module. I.e, the import statement is: from cElementTree import ElementTree, Element, SubElement, iterparse, tostring, fromstring and within each function I can simply refer to Element, SubElement, etc. w/o the full path prefix. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
