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authorYury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com>2015-07-03 05:04:23 (GMT)
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Issue #19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg Brandl.
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@@ -282,6 +282,16 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
handling in C, most floating point operations are not checked.
+.. exception:: RecursionError
+
+ This exception is derived from :exc:`RuntimeError`. It is raised when the
+ interpreter detects that the maximum recursion depth (see
+ :func:`sys.getrecursionlimit`) is exceeded.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.5
+ Previously, a plain :exc:`RuntimeError` was raised.
+
+
.. exception:: ReferenceError
This exception is raised when a weak reference proxy, created by the