[issue44790] Recursion causes Crash

[Dennis Sweeney]

Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Indeed, this behavior is documented at https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html?highlight=setrecursionlimit#sys.setrecursionlimit : "a too-high limit can lead to a crash".

I'd recommend refactoring to use iteration rather than recursion:

    def fact(n):
        product = 1
        for i in range(1, n+1):
            product *= i
        return product

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nosy: +Dennis Sweeney
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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