Dan a écrit : > I'm using python's xml.dom.minidom module to generate xml files, and > I'm running into memory problems. The xml files I'm trying to create > are relatively flat, with one root node which may have millions of > direct child nodes.
Woops ! You're looking for trouble. > > So, my questions are (1) am I doing something dumb in the script Yes : using minidom !-) > that > stops python from collecting temp garbage? That's not the problem. The problem is with how xml dom APIs work: they build the whole damn tree in memory. > (2) If not, is there > another reasonable module to generate xml (as opposed to parsing it), > or should I just implement my own xml generation solution? You should have a look at Genshi: http://genshi.edgewall.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
