On 30 Apr 2022, at 22:35, Martin Mueller wrote: > When I reported that problem at an earlier time, I think that Stefan advised > me to introduce some step that would clear memory after each single text.
How are you reading the source file? If it really is a large file then you could do worse than read using iterparse and write using xmlfile. If you're not using iterpase then clearing elements won't make much difference but it does when you use it. But you have to learn when to use it because it's easy to use it too aggressively and find it has cleared elements before you've processed them. This is especially important where you have recursive functions like yours does. But you should also provide more information about memory use: how much memory does your system have and how much memory is the Python process using when it crashes. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Managing Director Clark Consulting & Research German Office Sengelsweg 34 Düsseldorf D- 40489 Tel: +49-203-3925-0390 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ lxml - The Python XML Toolkit mailing list -- lxml@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to lxml-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/lxml.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
