On Sep 22, 9:13 pm, process <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why doesn't Python optimize tailcalls? Are there plans for it? > > I know GvR dislikes some of the functional additions like reduce and > Python is supposedly about "one preferrable way of doing things" but > not being able to use recursion properly is just a big pain in the > a**.
There are some attempts, see for example http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496691/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
