Hello! Sometimes people have big amounts of text/data in xml files. To make processing more effective, they should be able to change the buffer size for collecting character data in one string. Here comes a patch that applies necessary changes in setattr method. It handles reallocation sufficiently efficient without introducing extra variables to the parser class. Also a documentation patch and some test cases are available. These patches and tests were done with debian etch python2.5, which is python-2.5.1 . This patch also works on python2.4 .
Here's a simpler, but still untested version of the patch that cuts out the various cases for reallocating when there's already buffered data and just does a flush every time.
Committed to the trunk in rev. 59853. AchimGaedke: thanks for your contribution! Also, please submit a signed copy of the contributor agreement when you can: see http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/ for details.
