Functions that call themselves
Recursion in Python: a base case plus a smaller problem, the call stack, walking nested folders and comment threads, and what RecursionError means.
- The skill
- Solve a problem by handing a smaller copy of it to the same function, and walk data nested to any depth.
- You make
- Size counters for nested folders and a depth finder for comment threads.
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Python 3.13