On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > I would have expected an out-of-memory error. If there is not already a > crash issue on the tracker for this, you could add one.
It's a stack fault, and it's a documented possibility: https://docs.python.org/2/library/sys.html#sys.setrecursionlimit https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.setrecursionlimit Tracker search brings up this as a definite hit, and some other maybes: http://bugs.python.org/issue6356 ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list