Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Huge CSV and XML Files in Python, here is a quick summary:

Quick walkthrough of my code for converting a very large CSV file into a very large XML file using the Python standard libraries. Despite a few issues along the way, was a very pleasant experience.

You are responding to this comment written by Stu on January 23rd 2009, 07:22.

Throughput is quite good - I'm processing 29mb csv and inputting to a database via django. It takes about 30minutes for 200k+ records (there are a few joined tables on these too).

My app isn't time critical, but it does feel like it could be quicker*.

• I guess I could generate raw sql, but then the nice ORMness is lost.

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