memory error loading a large file into beautifulStoneSoup

[amadain]

I am trying to parse data in a large xml event log. The log has
150000+ events. When I load it into beautifulSoup I get the following
error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "BeautifulCount.py", line 16, in ?
events=BeautifulStoneSoup(fTot)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1141,
in __init__
self._feed(isHTML=isHTML)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BeautifulSoup.py", line 1174,
in _feed
markup = fix.sub(m, markup)
MemoryError

fTot is the concatenation of 15 xml event logs each with 10000 events
in them.

Does BeautifulStoneSoup have limitations on the size of the data it
can parse? What are the upper limits? I will need to parse al lot more
than just 150000 events in the future (telecoms).

Thanks in advance

A

[Leonard Richardson]

Beautiful Soup is a DOM-style parser that builds a memory structure
proportional in size to the original document. To parse arbitrarily
large documents you need to use an event-based parser like the one in
xml.sax.

Leonard

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