[Tutor] Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file in python

[David Hutto]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> Chris Fuller, 21.12.2010 03:27:
>>>
>>> This isn't XML, it's an abomination of XML.  Best to not treat it as XML.
>>> Good thing you're only after one class of tags.  Here's what I'd do.  I'll
>>> give a general solution, but there are two parameters / four cases that
>>> could
>>> make the code simpler, I'll just point them out at the end.
>>>
>>> Iterate over the file descriptor, reading in line-by-line.  This will be
>>> slow
>>> on a huge file, but probably not so bad if you're only doing it once.
>>
>> Note that it's not unlikely that this is actually *slower* than using a real
>> XML parser:
>>
>
> Or a 'real' language like C or C++ maybe to increase, or in Python's
> case, bypass, the interpreter?


Which is *faster*.
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>
>> http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks
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