How safe is recursion in Python?

Question

I\'m working on an AI homework, and despite my professor\'s suggestions, I have no intention of writing this assignment in lisp. However, I do want to write it recursiv

Answer 1

>>> i=0
>>> def a():
...     global i
...     i += 1
...     try:
...             a()
...     except:
...             print(i)
... 
>>> a()
999
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getrecursionlimit()
1000

Not sure if that helps