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Efficiently Process Big Xml Files With CElementTree
ElementTree is becoming python's standard XML framework.
It also supports processing data as it coming/loading.
import cElementTree
for event, elem in cElementTree.iterparse(file):
if elem.tag == "record":
... process record element ...
elem.clear()
