It is a guard against a stack overflow, yes. Python (or rather, the CPython implementation) doesn't optimize tail recursion, and unbridled recursion causes stack overflows. You can change the recursion limit with sys.setrecursionlimit, but doing so is dangerous -- the standard limit is a little conservative, but Python stackframes can be quite big.

Python isn't a functional language and tail recursion is not a particularly efficient technique. Rewriting the algorithm iteratively, if possible, is generally a better idea.

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It works up to n=997 , then it just breaks and spits out a RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison . Is this just a stack ...

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Jul 19, 2019 ... When you execute a recursive function in Python on a large input ( > 10^4), you might encounter a “maximum recursion depth exceeded error”.

Python: Maximum recursion depth exceeded - Stack Overflow

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You can increment the stack depth allowed - with this, deeper recursive calls will be possible, like this: import sys sys.setrecursionlimit(10000) ...

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2015年12月31日 ... 但是当遍历到1000左右时就会出现莫名其妙的错误, 通过pdb调试发现是: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded解析发现python ...

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Jul 19, 2019 ... (20.3s) [RecursionError] maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object. Attached: result of poetry add -vvv slash and ...

Fixing error – maximum recursion depth reached - Yasoob Khalid

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Aug 30, 2013 ... RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded. If you want to fix this error just increase the default recursion depth limit but how to do it?

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Sep 14, 2020 ... Conclusion. The “maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison” error is raised when you try to execute a function that exceeds Python's ...

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Jan 21, 2021 ... An RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object error was raised when accessing self referencing ...

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I've got a weird problem when I call child refresh() method in parent model it works, but if I call it in the child model I get the runtime error. # Working method in  ...

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... need to call find_duplicates_to_remove() When the data volume is too large ( 18W), it prompts me to recurse beyond the maximum depth. What should I do.