[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions? (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@beopen.com
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:47:39 -0400 (EDT)

I've just checked in Misc/find_recursionlimit.py that uses recursion through various __ methods (.e.g repr) to generate infinite recursion. These tend to use more C stack frames that a simple recursive function.

I've set the Python recursion_limit down to 2500, which is safe for all tests in find_recursionlimit on my Linux box. The limit can be bumped back up, so I'm happy to have it set low by default.

Does anyone have a platform where this limit is no low enough?

Jeremy