This program benchmarks a few XML parsing libraries available to Python programmers. In particular, it compares lxml with some of the modules in the xml package in Python standard library.
You need to pass at least one XML file as test input:
$ ./pyxmlperftest.py 1.xml 2.xml 3.xml
Sample final results:
Results:
xml.dom.minidom: 7.49 MBps
lxml.etree: 89.63 MBps
xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse: 31.77 MBps
xml.etree.ElementTree: 58.43 MBps
xml.sax: 25.68 MBps
From what I've seen so far, lxml is superior to all other options by
a wide margin, will minidom is the slowest option by far.
This is not a very scientific benchmark, so take the results with a grain of salt.