[3.13] gh-93618: Document the memory usage of the incremental parsers (GH-156763) - #157421
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…ythonGH-156763) It was said that iterparse() can be useful for reading a large document without holding it wholly in memory, but the tree is only built incrementally, it is not freed incrementally. Document how to remove the processed elements, and that a custom target does not build a tree at all. (cherry picked from commit e7a3937) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
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It was said that iterparse() can be useful for reading a large document
without holding it wholly in memory, but the tree is only built
incrementally, it is not freed incrementally. Document how to remove the
processed elements, and that a custom target does not build a tree at all.
(cherry picked from commit e7a3937)
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka [email protected]
iterparse#93618