[Tutor] strange recursion result

[D-Man]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:25:04PM -0800, Sheila King wrote:
| On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:20:39 -0600, Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>  wrote about
| Re: [Tutor] strange recursion result:
| 

[snip]

| >From the same page,
| http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html
| 
| getrecursionlimit()
| 
| I tried it out on my IDLE in interactive mode. I don't know what I was doing
| wrong, but it didn't work for me.
| 
| Here is my session:
| 
| Python 1.5.2 (#0, Apr 13 1999, 10:51:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
| Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
| >>> import sys
| >>> print sys.getrecursionlimit()
| Traceback (innermost last):
|   File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ?
|     print sys.getrecursionlimit()
| AttributeError: getrecursionlimit
| >>> 
| 
| What am I doing wrong? (Be nice: newbie, here.)

Using python 1.5.2 ;-).

The documentation you are using on python.org is for the latest
relase, 2.0.  2.0 changed some things and added a number of features.
getrecursionlimit() is one of them.

I recently installed Debian 2.2 which comes with python 1.5.2 and it
didn't have the function.  RH7.0 is still on my system, so I did a
chroot and ran it's python (I had upgraded it to 2.0).  It had the
function, which gave me 1000.  (Intel PII, 64MB RAM)

| 
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| Sheila King
| http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
| http://www.k12groups.org/
| 

It is probably a good idea to upgrade to 2.0.  One of the cool new
features is the "+=" operator.  If you are going to stick with 1.5.2,
I can give you a copy of the 1.5.2 docs.

-D