Python recursion limit

Question

So I understand the reason for the recursion limit of 1000. I want to run a script continuously, but am I right understanding that eventually the recursion limit will be reache

Answer 1

CPython has no optimizations for recursion, so you really want to avoid deeply-recursive code in favor of regular loops:

def main():
    while True:
        all_files = getFiles(LOC_DIR)
        files = []
        for f in all_files:
            if checkExt(f):
                files.append(f)
        if len(files) == 1:
            printLog('<<< Found %s matching file >>>' % len(files))
        elif len(files) > 1:
            printLog('<<< Found %s matching files >>>' % len(files))
        for f in files:
            if checkSize(f):
                rsyncFile(f)
        printLog('No files found.  Checking again in %s seconds' % RUN_INT)
        time.sleep(RUN_INT)
        printLog('Checking for files')

if __name__ == "__main__":    
    main()