[Tutor] RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

[Andreas Perstinger]

On 2012-04-19 21:51, James Stauble wrote:
> I have seen in a few places where this means my program is essentially in an
> endless loop, but as far as I can see it is formatted correctly. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[snip]

> #This function gets the tip which will be added to the meal
> def getTip(mealPrice):
>       tipPercent = getTip(mealPrice)

As soon as you enter "getTip()" you immediately call it again and again 
and again ... without a chance to break out of this endless loop.

As far as I can tell from your code snippet you don't need the line

tipPercent = getTip(mealPrice)

Bye, Andreas