On Apr 3, 11:28 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
yeah, i plan to use SAX.. but the thing is how do you do it with that?.... forget 1 TB for now... how do you split an XML file which is something like 70-80 GB... on the basis of my need (thats the post.)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
