Iterative vs. Recursive coding

[John Bokma]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:

>     Python does not do tail recursion, so using recursion
> where iteration could do the job is generally a bad idea.  Scheme, on
> the other hand, always does tail recursion where possible.

I think you mean tail recursion optimization / elimination.
Python does tail recursion:

>>> def x(n):
...     if n == 10: return
...     print n
...     x(n + 1)
... 
>>> x(1)
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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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