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martinblechon I Am Eric Ries, Author of the Lean Startup. AMA

Are there examples of lean startup ideas going wrong or being misunderstood and leading startups straight to failure?

martinblechon Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON

Thanks!

martinblechon Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON

There's however a small feature in xmltodict that most people overlook: the streaming mode. I actually wrote xmltodict the day I tried to parse a Wikipedia dump, I just couldn't keep it all in memory but needed something more high-level than SAX.

martinblechon Python module that makes working with XML feel like working with JSON

xmltodict is in no way trying to compete with LXML feature-wise (no support for namespaces yet, just to name one thing). It's just a lightweight approach to roundtrip between XML and JSON documents that worked for my use case and decided to share it.