> I abuse it because I can (and because I don't generally work with XML > files larger than 20-30meg) :) > And the OP never said the XML file for 1TB in size, which makes things > different.
Even with small xml-files your advice was not very sound. Yes, it's tempting to use regexes to process xml. But usually one falls flat on his face soon - because of whitespace or attribute order or <foo></foo> versus <foo/> or .. or .. or. Use an XML-parser. That's what they are for. And especially with the pythonic ones like element-tree (and the compatible lxml), its even more straight-forward than using rexes. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
