FOR statement

[Diez B. Roggisch]

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?

To complement my other post: while it isn't tail recursive and can't be 
so automatically, there do exist recipes to make certain functions tail 
recursive by hand:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/474088


Diez