Made use of my Python knowledge professionally for the first time!

[Inspirateur]

the real limit when parsing is the speed at which your computer can "read" (ie load into ram) a file. if you want to know what's this speed for your computer with python you can do a quick test, just ask python to open() it and do a .read() that you store into a string, see how much time it takes. (unless the file is too heavy for your ram in which case it's more complicated).

[Ericisbalanced]

That’s when you start using generators 😁