[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul, > > This is interesting. Unfortunately, I have no control over the XML > output. The file is from Goldmine. However, you have given me an > idea... > > Is it possible to read an XML document in compressed format?
compressing the footprint on disk won't matter, you still have 10GB of data that you need to process and it can only be processed uncompressed. I would just export the data in smaller batches, there should not be any reason you can't export subsets and process them that way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list