et_xmlfile v2 released

[Charlie Clark]

Dear all,

we're very pleased to announce the release of et_xmlfile version 2.0 with proper support for generating XML incrementally.

et_xmlfile implements the xmlfile approach provided by lxml. Initially, this was done purely for reasons of compatibility and, while it worked very well, it wasn't suitable for large worksheets because it wasn't truly incremental.

Huge thanks to Daniel Hillier for taking this task on so that et_xmlfile now provides proper incremental writing for the xml.etree module. While we still recommend you use lxml for large files, one major benefit of the new version is compatibility with PyPy which might even run faster. This also makes deployments easier in environments where it might not be possible to use lxml.

Thanks again to Elias for his initial work and to Stefan Behner for putting the feature in lxml in the first place.

In memory of Fredrik Lundh who wrote ElementTree, and gave it to the standard library and for his work on the Python Image Library.

Further information:

https://openpyxl.pages.heptapod.net/et_xmlfile/

Charlie

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