Flood Fill Algorithm Python

Question

So I\'m trying to create a flood fill algorithm and I keep getting a recursion error with this. The algorithm seems to have infinite recursion and I cannot pinpoint why. I

Answer 1

Instead of recursion, why not flood-fill in a depth-first manner? Recursion uses an implicit stack anyway so you've nothing to lose.

And yes, as pointed out in the comments, you should be checking for x and y being out of bounds.