On Apr 7, 11:40 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to iterate through the lines of a file in a recursive function > > so I can't use:- > > > f = open(listfile, 'r') > > for ln in f: > > > because when the function calls itself it won't see any more lines in > > the file. E.g. more fully I want to do somthing like:- > > > def recfun(f) > > while True: > > str = readline(f) > > if (str == "") > > break; > > # > > # do various tests > > # > > if <something>: > > recfun(f) > > Don't do that; Python doesn't have tail recursion and you'll hit the > stack limit. > > John Nagle
This function is not tail recursive (the recursive call is in a loop). -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
