How do I get the current depth of the Python interpreter stack?

Question

From the documentation:

sys.getrecursionlimit()

Return the current value of the recursion limit, the maximum depth of th

Answer 1

You can see the whole call stack from inspect.stack(), so currently taken depth would be len(inspect.stack(0)).

On the other hand, I guess you got the complete stack printed out when "maximum recursion depth exceeded" exception was raised. That stack trace should show you exactly what went wrong.