FOR statement

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Sat Oct 21 04:48:33 EDT 2006


Theerasak Photha schrieb:
> On 21 Oct 2006 00:50:34 -0700, Ant <antroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> But there's a good reason not to. Try:
>>
>> printreverse(range(1000))
>>
>> Recursion has a maximum depth (of 1000 by default) in Python.
> 
> I guess Python isn't tail-recursive then?

Nope. And given that you can decorate every function whenever you want , 
even at runtime, I can't see how that can be implemented easily - or at 
all, to be honest.

Diez



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