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I've been playing around with the XML libraries, to great effect. I
can't believe how useful it is. However, it seems to be very slow.
The (short) program at the bottom of this email takes about 10 seconds
to run!
What am I doing wrong? Am I defaulting to a slow parser?
Thanks!
Mordy
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#!/usr/bin/python

from xml.dom.html_builder import HtmlBuilder
import urllib
from sys import argv

s = urllib.urlopen(argv[1])

htmlstr = s.read()

b = HtmlBuilder()

b.ignore_mismatched_end_tags = 1
b.feed(htmlstr)
doc = b.document

anchors = doc.getElementsByTagName('A')
for a in anchors:
if a._node.attributes.has_key("HREF"):
href = a._node.attributes["HREF"]
print "Title: ", a._node.children[0].value
print "Link: ", href.children[0].value
print
else:
print "error in <A> (?)"
print a._node.attributes
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o Mordy Ovits
o Cryptographic Engineer
o LockStar Inc.
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#!/usr/local/bin/python
from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda
x:x[:1]!=
'-',a);d='-d'in
a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d
while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda
i,b=pow(reduce(
lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))