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Westley Martínez wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:08:20AM -0400, Mel wrote:
[ ... ]
>> But sys.exit() doesn't return a string.  My fave is
>> 
>> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
>> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import sys
>> >>> a = int (input ('enter a number >'))
>> enter a number >sys.setrecursionlimit(1)
>> Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a
>> Python object' in <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'> ignored
[ ... ]

> What?

I guess sys.setrecursionlimit was meant to be called with a large number.  
Calling it with a small one roadblocks the interpreter.  Luckily, there can 
be just enough room to call setrecursionlimit again with something 
reasonable to get it all back.  Not enough room for `eval 
("sys.setrecursionlimit (2000)`, though.

	Mel.