ANN: cElementTree 0.9.8 (january 23, 2005)

[Fredrik Lundh]

effbot.org proudly presents release 0.9.8 of the cElementTree library,
a fast and very efficient implementation of the ElementTree API, for
Python 2.1 and later.  On typical documents, it's 15-20 times faster
than the Python version of ElementTree, and uses 2-5 times less
memory.

Here are some benchmark figures, using a number of popular XML tool-
kits to parse a 3405k document-style XML file from disk:

    library                     memory  time
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    amara                       20300k  6.4s
    minidom (python 2.4)        53000k  1.4s
    ElementTree 1.2.4           14500k  1.1s
    cDomlette                   20500k  0.54s
    pyRXPU                      10850k  0.175s
    libxml2                     16000k  0.098s
    cElementTree 0.9             4900k  0.047s
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    readlines (read as utf-8)    8850k  0.093s
    readlines (read as ascii)    5050k  0.032s
    ------------------------------------------------------------

This release also includes a new "iterparse" mechanism, which can be
used to process the tree as it is being built.  While not quite as
fast as a full parse, it's over 4 times faster than Python's standard
SAX interface, and even a bit faster than sgmlop.

The library is available as C source code, and as Windows installers
for all recent Python versions.  Get your copy here:

    http://effbot.org/downloads#celementtree

The cElementTree module uses some support functions from the standard
ElementTree library, and will not work properly without it.  If you
haven't installed it already, you can get it from:

    http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree

enjoy /F

    "effbot.org -- not knowing how Python is used since 1995"