On 11/11/05, john boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have adjusted the program to: > > import sys. > sys. getrecursionlimit() > sys.setrecursionlimit(2000) > def countdown (n): > if n ==0: > print "blastoff" > else: > print n > countdown (n-1) > countdown (1200) > > this acutally works now....
Good! > is there any way to permanently set the recursion > level or do I have to type a setrecursionlimit everytime the program will > likely exceed 1000 Well, you could always always set it in site.py, I suppose, but in general, I prefer iteration over recursion in Python. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list