Tag Archives: xml

lxml vs. ElementTree

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Michael Schurter

While lxml has some excellent benchmarks about the speed of lxml.etree vs. ElementTree, I wanted to run some tests that were as close as possible to my own use case (fairly simple multi-megabyte XML files). Here are the results of … Continue reading →

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Fun with SQLObject and mxDateTime

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Michael Schurter

I’m working on a small CherryPy web service that among other things saves timestamps to a database. The timestamp is in RFC 3339 format (like 2007-07-31T16:05:00.000-05:00), and I needed to store the timezone. Luckily mxDateTime and SQLObject’s DateTimeCol both support … Continue reading →

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