[Python-ideas] ElementTree iterparse string

[Eli Bendersky]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ElementTree iterparse only works with file names or file objects. What if
> there was an iterparse for strings? Like iterparsestring or iterfromstring
> or iterstring, etc. Even though the string is stored in memory, storing the
> entire tree along with the string is a major minus, especially since a
> string takes less memory than an ElementTree instance or a root element.
>
>
Hi Ryan,

1) This question is more suitable for python-list@ or Stack Overflow
2) In addition to Antoine's suggestion, note that ET takes file-like
objects everywhere, which means you can use StringIO. Look at the tests in
Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py for some examples. This is a common idiom in
Python programming.

Eli
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