Kanch wrote: > Original file was 18MB, and contained 288328 element attributes for > the particular path.
You didn't say how many elements there are in total, but I wouldn't expect that to be a problem, unless you have very little free memory (say, way below 256MB). I just tried with lxml 2.1 and a 40MB XML file with 300 000 elements and it lets the whole Python interpreter take up some 140MB of memory in total. Looping over all elements by calling "list(root.iter())" takes a bit more than one second on my laptop. That suggests that /any/ solution involving lxml (or cElementTree) will do just fine for you. > I wonder whether for loop will cause a problem in iterating for 288328 > times. You are heavily underestimating the power of the Python here. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
