[Tutor] Complaint about maximum recursion

[amk at amk.ca]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:47:32AM +0200, Kristoffer Erlandsson wrote:
> greedy ones, or if you are sure you are just exceeding the limit by a
> small amount you can use sys.setrecursionlimit(n) to increase the limit.

No, this won't work.  sys.setrecursionlimit() sets how deep Python code can
recurse.  The recursion inside the regex engine is in C code, and it uses a
hard-wired limit (USE_RECURSION_LIMIT, set to 10000 on most platforms.

--amk