XML parsing per record

[William Park]

Willem Ligtenberg <WLigtenberg at gmail.com> 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?

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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
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