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Re: recursive methods require implementing a stack?

From "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: recursive methods require implementing a stack?
Date 2016-04-07 06:46 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:28:47 +0000, Rob Gaddi wrote:

> Charles T. Smith wrote:
> 
>> I just tried to write a recursive method in python - am I right that local
>> variables are only lexically local scoped, so sub-instances have the same
>> ones?  Is there a way out of that?  Do I have to push and pop my own simulated
>> stack frame entry? 
> 
> You have been badly misled.  Python local variables are frame local, and
> recursion just works.


Well, I probably stumbled astray due to my own stupidity, can't blame anybody
of having misled me...  ;)

So it's a bug in my program!  Good news!  Thank you.

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recursive methods require implementing a stack? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 20:21 +0000
  Re: recursive methods require implementing a stack? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-06 20:28 +0000
    Re: recursive methods require implementing a stack? "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 06:46 +0000
      Re: recursive methods require implementing a stack? Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 07:25 +0000

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