[b]"What's the best way to parse and manipulate XML in Python?"[/b] or [b]"How do you handle XML data efficiently

If you’re just starting with python xml, ElementTree is easiest.

But for heavy lifting, lxml wins. Its XPath support is *chef’s kiss*.

10MB+ files? `iterparse` + manual garbage collection.

Namespaces? Ugh. Maybe pre-process the XML to strip ’em?