using re: hitting recursion limit

[Terry Reedy]

"Erik Johnson" <spam at nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:417eab49$1 at nntp.zianet.com...
>    One question is, "Does getting this error actually mean I have hit my
> process' stack memory limit or is there possibly some artificial 
> recursion
> limit set in front of that?" If there is some number I can push up, I'd 
> be
> happy to let it run until the OS axes it for exceeding it's process 
> limits

Perhaps you are looking fo
sys.getrecursionlimit()
sys.setrecursionlimit(n)

Terry J. Reedy