Irit Katriel <iritkatriel@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree with Stanley. The documentation for os is clear that recursion is used and the documentation for RecursionError links to getrecursionlimit(). This seems sufficient. ---------- nosy: +iritkatriel resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue26545> _______________________________________