[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I guess this should make the program enter into a endless loop. But > > the data won't have such a redundancy, because it was taken from a > > philogenetic tree. > > But errors and bugs do happen, inside data too; so often it's better > to be on safe side if the safe code is fast enough.
If you think the data may be wrong it's probably better to use a traditional graph algorithm to check it for cycles, than rely on some arbitrary recursion depth limit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list