On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 6:54:23 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 8:57:53 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:41 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > > > > Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > > > > >> While playing with recursion I get: > > >> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison > > >> > > >> But then I get a very long stack trace. Is there a way to make this a > > >> lot shorter. Now I 'lose' interesting information because of the length > > >> of the stack trace. > > > > > > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > > > > There ought to be a website that explains how to give smart answers. > > Or one that explains how to be kind to those that don't know > the ropes yet. Though pointing impatient experts at a > website probably won't get them to change any more than > brusquely pointing newbs at a website will.
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