Our project needs ElementTree.iterparse to parse large XML files memory efficiently. Unfortunately it is not implemented in IronPython:
IronPython 2.7.8 (2.7.8.0) on .NET 4.0.30319.42000 (64-bit)
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>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> ET.iterparse(StringIO('<root/>'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\Program Files\IronPython 2.7\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1198, in iterparse
NotImplementedError: iterparse is not supported on IronPython. (CP #31923)
>>>We have instructed our users to install ElementTree 1.2.7 preview release from 2007 and it seems to work fine, but having such an extra dependency that cannot even be pip-installed is highly annoying. Incorporating the fixes from the aforementioned ElementTree version into IronPython itself would be great.
Our project needs
ElementTree.iterparseto parse large XML files memory efficiently. Unfortunately it is not implemented in IronPython:We have instructed our users to install ElementTree 1.2.7 preview release from 2007 and it seems to work fine, but having such an extra dependency that cannot even be pip-installed is highly annoying. Incorporating the fixes from the aforementioned ElementTree version into IronPython itself would be great.