On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a >> very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who >> has a 4GB XML file > > Getting 4GB XML files from, say, logging processes or databases that can > render their output as XML is not that uncommon. They're usually > record-oriented, and are intended to be processed as streams. And given > the right tools, doing that is no harder than doing the same to a 4GB > text file.
Fair enough, that's a good point. But would you expect random access to a 4GB XML file? If I've understood what Castironpi is trying for, his primary use case was for people wanting exactly that. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
