On Tue, Oct 1, 2013, at 17:30, Terry Reedy wrote: > Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is > that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once > you know the secret of the two easy steps. Here it is.
That should be a reason it _does_ do it - saying people should rewrite their functions with loops means declaring that Python is not really a multi-paradigm programming language but rather rejects functional programming styles in favor of imperative ones. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
