Danny Yoo wrote: >>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.
Bernard, would you send a copy to Danny? It's not my data so I'd rather not forward it. Danny, the file is not particularly large or difficult, it has a simple structure and nests about six levels deep. Maybe there's some O(n^2) nastiness somewhere in BeautifulSoup. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
