Parsing big XML files in Python is hard. On one hand, regular XML libraries load the
whole file into memory, which will crash the process if the file is too big. Other
solutions such as iterparse do read the file as they parse it, but they are complex to
use if you don't want to run out of memory.
This is where the BigXML library shines:
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Pythonic xml parser to handle big files or streams
We found that bigxml demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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