Willem Ligtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to parse a very large (2.4 gig) XML file (bioinformatics > ofcourse :)) But I have no clue how to do that. Most things I see read > the entire xml file at once. That isn't going to work here ofcourse. > > So I would like to parse a XML file one record at a time and then be > able to store the information in another object. How should I do > that? > > Thanks in advance, > > Willem Ligtenberg A total newbie to python by the way.
You may want to try Expat (www.libexpat.org) or Python wrapper to it. You can feed small piece at a time, say by lines or whatever. Of course, it all depends on what kind of parsing you have in mind. :-) Care to post more details? -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because it works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
