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

[David Hutto]

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>>>> I sympathize with you. I wonder who thought that building a 1GB XML file
>>>> was a good thing.

If it is:

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language.

XML is designed to transport and store data.


Then what other file medium would you suggest as the tagging means.

You have a file with tags, you can't parse and store the data in any
file anymore than the next, right?

So the tags and how they are marked by any module or file extension
searcher shouldn't matter, right?

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>> http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/xml_matters_29.html
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> Fredrik Lundh's cElementTree page has a benchmark for that, too. It's
> actually slower than cElementTree for the case he tested (which was
> basically "parsing" :)
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks
>
> Stefan
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