searching and storing large quantities of xml!

[MRAB]

dads wrote:
[snip]
> import os.path
> import shutil
> import zlib
> import os
> 

There's no need to import both os.path and os. Import just os; you can
still refer to os.path in the rest of the code.

[snip]
> 
>     def _mkMonthAndDaysDirs(self):
> 
>         ''' creates dirs for every month and day of a of specidifed
> year.
>             Works for leap years as well.
> 
>             (specified)year/(year)month/day
> 
> 
>             ...2010/201001/01
>             ...2010/201001/02
>             ...2010/201001/03                 '''
> 
There's nothing except a docstring in this method!
> 
>         def addZero(n):
> 
>             if len(str(n)) < 2:
>                 return '0' + str(n)
>             else:
>                 return str(n)
> 
A shorter and quicker way is:

     return "%02d" % n

which means "pad with leading zeros to be at least 2 characters".

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> 
>         # dir struct .../(year)/(year).zip - ex. .../2008/2008.zip
>         zf = zipfile.ZipFile(os.path.join(self.cwd, self.year +
> '.zip'))
>         zf.extractall()

You might want to close the zipfile after use.

[snip]
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     os.chdir('c:/sv_zip_test/2010/') #remove

I recommend that you work with the full paths instead of changing the
current directory and then using relative paths.

>     xo = Xmlorg()
>     xo.ParseAndOrg()