[trefeda]

What's Python's maximum recursion depth?

[Peter Pitt]

Depends on the platform.

[trefeda]

Windows and Linux?

[Peter Pitt]

trefeda, the default is easily gotten with sys.getrecursionlimit(). howmuch beyond that you can go depends on many factors. And if you set the stacklimit manually, it depends on both the C stack limit and the size of the frames you create.

[trefeda]

Wow, the default's only 1000. I didn't realize it was that low.

[martinar_kauaro]

trefeda, are you doing something that's running into the limit?

[trefeda]

Why does Python have a fixed stack size? Why not make it arbitrarily resizable?

[rczywkkki]

trefeda: the stack size isn't Python's limitation, but the platform's.

[Peter Pitt]

trefeda, unfortunately, there isn't a usable way to detect you're nearing the end of the platform stack size (except, apparently, on Windows).

[trefeda]

martinar_kauaro, Not yet. I'm just considering how I might implement a tree search algorithm.