Bottleneck? More efficient regular expression?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Another approach is to turn the XML into a DOM but I
> have much less experience with that.  (I get confused with
> the DOM API every time I try

the DOM API is designed for consultants, not for humans or
computers.

here's the elementtree version, btw:

s = """<record>
<code>1cg2</code>
<chain>a</chain>
<settings>abcde</settings>
<scoreInfo>12345</scoreInfo>
<targetSeq name="1onc">blah
</targetSeq>
<alignment size="335"/>
<target>WLTFQKKHITNTRDVDCDNIMS</target>
<align> :| ..| :    .  |  .                         |.  .  :</align>
<template>QKRDNVLFQAATDEQPAVIKTLEKL</template>
<anotherTag>foobarfoobar</anotherTag>
<yetAnotherTag>barfoobarfoo</yetAnotherTag>
</record>"""

from elementtree.ElementTree import XML

for node in XML(s):
    print node.tag, "=", repr(node.text)

(more here: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm )

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