On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:53:28 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>> Something else: this crashes with a "maximum recursion reached"
>> . print stream_enumerate_interval(1,998)
>>
>> while this does not crash
>> . print stream_enumerate_interval(1,900)
>> this means Python has a maximum of something like 900
>> recursions?
>
>The CPython implementation is limited by the stack size allocated by the C
>runtime library. The exact recursion limit is platform dependent, but
>something
>around 1000 sounds fairly normal.
>
ISTM you forgot something ;-)
(I.e., that 1000 is only a default value (don't know if same on all platforms)).
>>> import sys
>>> help(sys.setrecursionlimit)
Help on built-in function setrecursionlimit in module sys:
setrecursionlimit(...)
setrecursionlimit(n)
Set the maximum depth of the Python interpreter stack to n. This
limit prevents infinite recursion from causing an overflow of the C
stack and crashing Python. The highest possible limit is platform-
dependent.
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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