"Eric Abrahamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> Welcome to the wacky world of recursion. >> You call __upp from inside __upp so you do indeed generate >> a new layer, in fact you start a new while loop. You need to > > So all those "yes"s were actually backing out of multiple while > loops... Should have guessed that calling a method from inside > itself > was a bad idea.
Actually recursion is a very powerful construction and not at all a bad idea, but it needs to be carefully controlled - as you discovered - but I have a topic on it in my tutorial (in the 'advanced' section) if you want to see some of the things it can be used for. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
