Theerasak Photha schrieb: > On 21 Oct 2006 00:50:34 -0700, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But there's a good reason not to. Try: >> >> printreverse(range(1000)) >> >> Recursion has a maximum depth (of 1000 by default) in Python. > > I guess Python isn't tail-recursive then?
To complement my other post: while it isn't tail recursive and can't be so automatically, there do exist recipes to make certain functions tail recursive by hand: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474088 Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list