high level, fast XML package for Python?

[Gleb Rybkin]

Okay, thanks!

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> > Gleb Rybkin wrote:
> >
> >> I searched online, but couldn't really find a standard package for
> >> working with Python and XML -- everybody seems to suggest different
> >> ones.
> >>
> >> Is there a standard xml package for Python? Preferably high-level, fast
> >> and that can parse in-file, not in-memory since I  have to deal with
> >> potentially MBs of data.
> >
> > cElementTree and lxml (which is API-compatible to the former). cElementTree
> > has an incremental parser, which allows for lager-than-memory-files to be
> > processed.
>
> In Python 2.5, cElementTree and ElementTree will be available in the
> standard library as xml.etree.cElementTree and xml.etree.ElementTree.
> So learning them now is a great idea.
> 
> STeVe