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

ElementTree is fine, but lxml is *way* better for complex python xml tasks.

For large files, SAX is ugly but works. Or split the XML first.

Namespaces? `lxml.etree` lets you ignore ’em with `*` in XPath.

Also, `xmlschema` lib helps if you’re validating.