Albert Chin writes: > I have an XML element that contains a lot of data (it's a base64 > encoded file). Reading the characters through the default characters() > function is slow (one line at a time). How can I read more? That's a general behavior of Expat which is not configurable at this time. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation