BZip2 decompression and parsing XML

[Stefan Behnel]

phasma wrote:
> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line
> 538676, column 17

Looks like your XML file is broken in line 538676.


>             try:
>                 handler = open(args[0], "r")

This should read

                  handler = open(args[0], "rb")

Maybe that's your problem.

BTW, since you seem to parse a pretty big chunk of XML there, you should
consider using lxml. It's faster, more memory friendly, more feature-rich and
easier to use than minidom. It can also parse directly from a gzip-ed file or
a file-like object as provided by the bz2 module.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/

Stefan