>>>>> Kee Nethery <k...@kagi.com> (KN) wrote: >KN> On Aug 22, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> >>> You can use both, but I suspect parsing from StringIO to be slower than >>> parsing from the string directly. That's the case for lxml, at least. >>> >>> Note that fromstring() behaves the same as XML(), but it reads better >>> when >>> parsing from a string variable. XML() reads better when parsing from a >>> literal string. >KN> I'm not sure I know the difference between a string variable and a literal >KN> string. Is the difference as simple as: >KN> somestring = u'<stuff>hello world</stuff>' >KN> fromstring(somestring) <-- string variable >KN> vs >KN> XML(u'<stuff>hello world</stuff>') <-- literal string Yes. Stefan probably means `looks better for the human reader' when he says `reads better'. XML and fromstring are just different names for the same function. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
