Handling Large XML Files (>10GB) in Python

[onlydibs]

Parsing Big XML Files
Need help to parse very large xml files(>10GB). Could you please help how to avoid memory issues. We can't read the entire file once. Any code example or conceptual explanation please. Thanks

[Clunk_Head]

Use lxml and iterparse. When you've finished with an element you will need to use clear to prevent a buildup in memory.
This should let you open an XML file of most any size.