Re: XML parsing: SAX/expat & yield

2010-08-04 Thread kj
In Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: >How about >http://effbot.org/zone/element-iterparse.htm#incremental-parsing Exactly! Thanks! ~K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML parsing: SAX/expat & yield

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Otten
kj wrote: > I want to write code that parses a file that is far bigger than > the amount of memory I can count on. Therefore, I want to stay as > far away as possible from anything that produces a memory-resident > DOM tree. > > The top-level structure of this xml is very simple: it's just a > v

XML parsing: SAX/expat & yield

2010-08-04 Thread kj
I want to write code that parses a file that is far bigger than the amount of memory I can count on. Therefore, I want to stay as far away as possible from anything that produces a memory-resident DOM tree. The top-level structure of this xml is very simple: it's just a very long list of "reco