http://base-art.net/Articles/27/ <p><a class="reference" href="http://www.reportlab.org/pyrxp.html">PyRXP</a> claims to be the fastest Python XML parser around... but this has a price. Once XML is parsed, you get a tree structured as tuples, lists and dictionnaries. While this is very Pythonic, it's not so trivial to write/read code handling such a tree.</p> <p>People at Reportlab argue about that for speed. Dealing with classes in Python is mem hungry, so they use only basic data structures (tuples,list,...). I can understand that but i believe it's an <cite>extremist</cite> point. Finding a balance between the DOM API (which is <cite>extremist</cite> too :) and such structures could turn to be more popular, maybe a Python <cite>xml_node</cite> builtin type ...</p> en The contents of this blog are available for non-commercial use only. Alinea http://pythonfr.org/alinea/ http://base-art.net/Comments/196/ http://base-art.net/Comments/196/ Dj Mixer 2006-03-12T19:56:07Z http://base-art.net/Comments/77/ http://base-art.net/Comments/77/ Fredrik 2004-12-26T09:31:40Z http://base-art.net/Comments/73/ http://base-art.net/Comments/73/ phil 2004-12-23T10:42:23Z http://base-art.net/Comments/72/ http://base-art.net/Comments/72/ Ian Bicking 2004-12-23T08:23:54Z http://base-art.net/Comments/71/ http://base-art.net/Comments/71/ phil 2004-12-21T18:35:43Z http://base-art.net/Comments/70/ http://base-art.net/Comments/70/ verbat 2004-12-20T17:33:35Z http://base-art.net/Comments/69/ http://base-art.net/Comments/69/ anon 2004-12-19T18:01:43Z