[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Aug 29 19:30:59 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Josiah Carlson wrote:

> 1. Let us say I was parsing XML. Rather than allocating a bunch of small > strings for the various tags, attributes, and data, I could instead > allocate a bunch of string views with pointers into the one larger XML > string. when did you last write an XML parser ?

Comparing what I have written as an XML parser to xml.dom, xml.sax, ElementTree, or others, is a bit like comparing a go-kart with an automobile. That is to say, it's been a few years, and it was to scratch an itch for a particular application, and no other xml parser existed at the time for my particular applicaion, that I knew of.

Presumably by your question, you think that the particular example I've offered is bollocks. Sounds reasonable, I withdraw it.

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