robert wrote: > My code does recursion loops through a couple of functions. Due to > problematic I/O input this leads sometimes to "endless" recursions and after > expensive I/O to the Python recursion exception. > What would be a good method to detect recursion loops and stop it by > user-Exception (after N passes or some complex criteria) without passing a > recursion counter parameter through all the funcs?
What about `sys.setrecursionlimit`? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html -- HTH, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list