Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
The recursion depth and recursion limit are stored internally as C ints, so yes, 2**31 - 1 = 2147483647 is the maximum value that you can pass to `sys.setrecursionlimit` that won't fail immediately. But it's unclear why you'd ever want to set the recursion limit that high. What's your goal here? Are you looking for a way to effectively disable that recursion limit altogether? If so, can you explain the use-case? Note that the recursion limit is there to prevent your code from exhausting the C stack and segfaulting as a result: simply setting that limit to a huge value won't (by itself) allow you to run arbitrarily deeply nested recursions. On my machine, without the protection of the recursion limit, a simple recursive call segfaults at around a depth of 30800. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41313> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
