What is the maximum recursion depth in Python, and how to increase it?

Question

I have this tail recursive function here:

def recursive_function(n, sum):
    if n < 1:
        return sum
    else:
        return recursive_function(n-1         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with the error "Max recursion depth exceeded". I discovered the error was being triggered by a corrupt file in the directory I was looping over with os.walk. If you have trouble solving this issue and you are working with file paths, be sure to narrow it down, as it might be a corrupt file.