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

As others have pointed out, you can increase the recursion depth using sys.setrecursiondepth(), though at the risk of overflowing the C stack (assuming you are using CPython). If you run into this problem, you can create a thread with bigger stack size by calling thread.stack_size() with the new stack size, and then spawn a new thread to do the actual work.