On Jul 23, 11:05 am, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kanch wrote: > > Original file was 18MB, and contained 288328 element attributes for > > the particular path. > > You didn't say how many elements there are in total, but I wouldn't expect > that to be a problem, unless you have very little free memory (say, way below > 256MB). I just tried with lxml 2.1 and a 40MB XML file with 300 000 elements > and it lets the whole Python interpreter take up some 140MB of memory in > total. Looping over all elements by calling "list(root.iter())" takes a bit > more than one second on my laptop. That suggests that /any/ solution involving > lxml (or cElementTree) will do just fine for you. > > > I wonder whether for loop will cause a problem in iterating for 288328 > > times. > > You are heavily underestimating the power of the Python here. > > Stefan
Hi, thanks for the help. lxml will suit my work. I have not being working with python for that long. :) Kanch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
