Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] GSoC progress

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Artem Yunusov <ne...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>> I think we also could speed up markdown by switching to cElementTree
>>> instead of NanoDOM.
>>>
>>
>> Which version of python would this require?
>>
>
> cElementTree and ElementTree was includeded in Python std lib since
> Python 2.5, but cElementTree itself can be used with Python 1.5.2 and later.
>

Just remember the c variation will not work on IronPython, Jython or
other python implementations. Additionally, there may be (shared) web
hosts which will allow a user to copy a pure python module to the
server, but not compile a c module. So if we do switch, the import
should be in a try...except block and import the non-c variation if c
is not available. In such a situation, would ElementTree give us any
advantage?

Although, I believe that would give us an instant html/xhtml output
option so it may make sense regardless of any speed increase - that is
as long as it doesn't slow things down.



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