Recursion

[Carsten Gaebler]

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Abhijit Soman <abhijit_som at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> 
>>    def showbits(x):
>>        if x != 1:
>>          showbits(x >> 1)        
>>        if x & 01:
>>          print 1,
>>        else:
>>          print 0,
> 
> 
> It's interesting that nobody seems to have caught the infinite recursion
> when you try to show a value which happens to be zero...
> 

... which, of course, we would elegantly resolve by saying:

try:
   showbits(foo)
except RuntimeError:
   print 0

;-)

cg.