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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, ttsiod
Date 2009-12-31.21:58:43
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Message-id <1262296725.85.0.0261749345107.issue7614@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The recursion limit exists precisely so that Python can avoid overflowing 
the C stack and hence crashing.  So if you increase the recursion limit 
without also increasing the stack space assigned to the process, you 
should expect a crash.

Closing as won't fix.
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