Joseph Martinot-Lagarde contrebasse at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 15:35:58 EDT 2016

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> No problem with that. In my experience, most RecursionErrors come from
> *accidental* recursion, which is straight-forwardly infinite and
> usually involves a single function.
It can come very easily with __getattr__, if __getattr__ itself uses an
undefined attribute. This recursion is usually not what the user wanted! :)

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