> On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:54 AM, Peter Westlake <peter.westl...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm getting a "maximum recursion depth exceeded" error that appears to be 
> coming from flatten(). The odd thing is that it only happens sometimes. The 
> HTML that's being flattened does have a few Deferreds in it. Those come from 
> function calls, which cache the results, which might explain why I only see 
> the error on the first visit to the page (as far as I can tell). 
> 
> The system recursion limit is the standard 1000. My HTML is only nested a few 
> tags deep, two orders of magnitude short of that. Is there anything about the 
> way flatten() works that might cause this behaviour?

flatten() can definitely result in some deep recursive stacks, particularly in 
combination with synchronous Deferreds which have their own accumulating stack 
costs. I'd be interested to see a minimal reproducer for this though, I'm sure 
we could do a lot better.

-g


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