Python parsing XML file problem with SAX

[Stefan Behnel]

Aahz, 09.08.2010 18:52:
> In article<mailman.1250.1280314148.1673.python-list at python.org>,
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>
>> First of all: don't use SAX. Use ElementTree's iterparse() function. That
>> will shrink you code down to a simple loop in a few lines.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, that only helps if the final tree fits into
> memory.  What do you suggest other than SAX if your XML file may be
> hundreds of megabytes?

Well, what about using ElementTree's iterparse() function in that case? 
That's what it's good at, and its cElementTree version is extremely fast.

Stefan