Re: Program calling unwanted functions

Date	2014-12-22 19:12 -0500
From	Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject	Re: Program calling unwanted functions
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On 12/22/2014 07:04 PM, sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> def test(t):
> ...     print(t)
> ...     test(t+1)
> ...
>>>> test(1)
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> <snip>
> 998
> 999
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
>    File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
>    File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
> <snip>
>    File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
>    File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
>
> Huh...there actually is a limit of about 1,000.  I'm assuming this is hard-coded?  I did a similar test with Java a while back and was getting different results every time.
>

https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/sys.html#sys.getrecursionlimit


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DaveA

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Program calling unwanted functions Luke Tomaneng <luketomaneng@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 11:55 -0800
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-12-22 20:09 +0000
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 15:35 -0500
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 16:48 -0700
  Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 18:57 -0500
    Re: Program calling unwanted functions sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2014-12-22 16:04 -0800
      Re: Program calling unwanted functions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-22 17:12 -0700
      Re: Program calling unwanted functions Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-12-22 19:12 -0500

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