WindowsError: stack overflow

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Sep 27 14:52:22 EDT 2005


<hardieca at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1127834209.353672.316530 at g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I can get through about 1750 pages of 5000 before I get a WindowsError:
> stack overflow exception. Any ideas how I can keep the program chugging
> along?

A typical source of stack overflow is recursion.  Without seeing the code 
or actual stacktrace, I would guess that you are somehow using recursion 
instead of iteration.  Or perhaps you are analyzing big, deeply nested 
pages.

Terry J. Reedy






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