> If you look at the list, for a while the functions are being called 777 > times. This is probably the number of start tags in the document. But > when you get to recursiveChildGenerator(), all of a sudden it is called > 898655 times, over 1000 times for each call to _fetch()! This is a > staggering number of calls, it is called 8 times for every character in > the file!
Hi Kent, This sounds like a beautiful torture test for BeautifulSoup. Kent, can you send me a copy of that test file too if that's ok? I might have some time to look into the performance problem. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor