Thanks Stefan,<br><br>It was taking 30 seconds, now taking 3!<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><br>Regards,<br>Joseph David Borġ <br><a href="http://www.jdborg.com" target="_blank">http://www.jdborg.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2012 19:35, Stefan Behnel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan_ml@behnel.de" target="_blank">stefan_ml@behnel.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Joe Borġ, 13.06.2012 19:39:<br>
<div class="im">> I'm running a script with 2.7 that deals with some heavy XML files. I'm<br>
> trying to speed it up best I can; using cProfile I've seen what's taking<br>
> all the time. It's the function _get_elements_by_tagName_helper. Can<br>
> anyone tell me where this is called and if I can improve its runtime speed?<br>
<br>
</div>I assume you are using minidom? My (biased) advice would be to switch to<br>
lxml. It's substantially faster than mindom in basically all regards.<br>
Alternative, if that suits your needs, use the xml.etree.cElementTree<br>
package in the stdlib, which is also substantially faster but less capable.<br>
<br>
Stefan<br>
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