GCD in standard library?

[Tim Peters]

[lynx]
> i suppose it's pointless to ask for python to become a properly
> tail-recursive language then?

That depends on the point you'd like to make.  If the point is for Python to
become that, yup, it's pointless, at least until someone capable of doing it
cares enough to implement it.  10 years plus & counting, and it's not at the
top of anyone's list.

properly-tail-recursive-sounds-like-a-chaste-lap-dance-ly y'rs  - tim