Use huge_tree=True in lxml parsing #2791
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Description
Enabled lxml support for very deep trees and very long text content in the geometry Python class. (huge_tree=true)
For large lattices with many elements (>~500,000 elements) the Python Universe plotter would fail due to the "huge text node". With this change I can successfully universe.py plot my highly detailed voxel lattice.
The change implemented follows that counselled here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11850345/using-python-lxml-etree-for-huge-xml-files
Fixes:
The error appearing during universe.py plotting was:
Checklist
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (if applicable)- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works (if applicable)