"Pekka Karjalainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Python doesn't do any kind of tail recursion optimization by default
> because Guido has decided it shouldn't (at least so far). I'm sure it has
> been discussed in detail in Python development forums & lists, but
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matteo wrote:
>This last approach could, at least theoretically, create an arbitrarily
>long list of polys, without overflowing any kind of stack. In practice,
>python does not seem to perform tail recursion optimizations, and conks
>out after makepolys(997) on my m
