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Re: XML in Pythong

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On 9/9/2026 3:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On 09/09/2026 11:05 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:38:58 -0300, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
>>
>>> PostScript does in fact have something like readmacros; in particular,
>>> readhexstring was the recommended way to handle image data, so that the
>>> image data didn’t have to be loaded into a PostScript object by way of
>>> the PostScript parser.
>>
>> It’s just a function. It’s like saying Python has “readmacros” because
>> the JSON and XML library modules have functions for reading input
>> streams and returning language-object representations of those
>> structures.
>>
> Dear Lawrence,
> 
> Ok, so I was tempted to ask why you're bringing up Python in a Post-
> Script discussion, but then I remembered you're a /Pythong influencer/,
> and can not help yourself.
> 
> Now, why are there only two library modules in Python for this task?  In
> C, we have -- I believe -- several, but I've only used Expat precisely
> because it doesn't create language-objects for me.  Do you not have a
> stream oriented XML parser in Pythong?  Is Python that much inferiour
> to C?
> 
> The same question can be asked of JSON, because sometimes we don't want
> to download the whole payload before starting the parse process.  After
> all, why not just shut down the network connection when we detect garb-
> age, like the one Lawrence is constantly spewing all over Usenet?
> 
> 
> Best wishes, and happy XML, JSON parsing in alt.folklore.computers!
> 
> 
> I've set the follow-up to: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.python,
> comp.lang.xml, borland.public.xml in that order.  Please remove
> alt.folklore.computers if you think it's not relevant anymore.

I have now experimented with Expat in Python.  It's as simple as

   import xml.parsers.expat

and

   p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()

which works wonderfully to explore the internals of an S.V.G. graphical
image.


Happy S.V.G. in Python!
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