[XML-SIG] py2exe and switching from PyXML 4Suite

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > > 
> > > Because you're such a nice guy, I'll ditch the tease for you :-)
> > 
> > You can also do these much more easily using XPath...
> > 
> > from Ft.Xml import XPath
> > 
> > 
> > def getElementsByTagName(node,name)
> >     return XPath.evaluate(node,".//" + name)
> 
> I think my generator approach would be faster, but this XPath approach has the 
> advantage of working in Python 2.0 and 2.1.  Mine is 2.2+.

Wow.  Is it ever faster.  I played with this some while working on my latest 
Python&XML column.  Even in the smallest cases the generator approach is 4-5 
times faster than the XPath approach.  I tried on Bosak's old testament in XML 
(900KB XML file, getting all the 23145 v elements).  The generator approach 
took about .82 seconds and the XPath approach took about 220 seconds.  In 
other words, the generator approach was almost 300 times faster.


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