Comments on: Puzzling Python http://surana.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/puzzling-python/ glossing over detail for the sake of time or clarity Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:27:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pinku http://surana.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/puzzling-python/#comment-168 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:20:58 +0000 http://surana.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/puzzling-python/#comment-168 As I said in the second paragraph, I know I can raise the limit with setrecursionlimit, but that doesn’t help when I write a general purpose library and don’t know when people might blow the stack. If I set the stack limit to 1500, what happens when someone uses my library for an even bigger problem size? Python should use all the stack available and fail when the OS raises an error.

]]> By: Hans http://surana.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/puzzling-python/#comment-162 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:16:48 +0000 http://surana.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/puzzling-python/#comment-162 “That’s because v0.99 uses (perfectly normal) recursion to solve the problem but hits a stack limit in Python.”

Hm, did you try increasing the limit using sys.setrecursionlimit()? Assuming the library doesn’t do that already…

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