recursion depth problem

[proctor]

On Apr 22, 5:05 pm, tac-tics <tactic... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, you should use a for loop in this situation.
>
> Certain functional languages, such as Scheme and various LISP dialects
> allow for what is called "tail recursion" which effectively eliminates
> this problem by internally converting recursion to iteration. Python
> isn't really cut out for heavy recursive work, and the "Pythonic" way
> of doing things is through the lovely for loop.

hi tac-tics,

by using a for loop, do you mean in the same sense that the
"xselections" function uses a for loop on the page:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/190465
?

or are you referring to a different technique for this?

thanks for your help.  i really appreciate it.

proctor.