Hi, I think your function runs forever because the only thing it done is calling it self when entering the for loop
when you call your function in the for loop it jump to the definition (def howMany(aDict)) then initialise count and bond the value 0 to it then enter a for loop then call the function 'howMany' again and so on! before the for loop there is nothing happening to the function you defined or the argument is not modified in the recursive call, so i don't understand why you used a recursion there! i think you have to replace the howMany(aDict) in the for loop by aDict it self and it will be ok. for value in aDict: ... Regards _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
