# The following example may crash or not depending on the platform. # E.g. on 32-bit Intel Linux in a "standard" configuration it seems to # crash on Python 2.5 (but not 2.4 nor 2.3). On Windows the import # eventually fails to find the module, possibly because we run out of # file handles. # The point of this example is to show that sys.setrecursionlimit() is a # hack, and not a robust solution. This example simply exercises a path # where it takes many C-level recursions, consuming a lot of stack # space, for each Python-level recursion. So 1000 times this amount of # stack space may be too much for standard platforms already. import sys if 'recursion_limit_too_high' in sys.modules: del sys.modules['recursion_limit_too_high'] import recursion_limit_too_high