RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object.

^{Originally posted by **dhmiller** March 31, 2023}
I did a Google search for this error and got the answer below but couldn't really interpret it. Is it something the devs could modify in Deforum,? Trying to do long renders (6, 7k keyframes) but they fail half way through (except when they don't - i.e., sometimes I can do a 9k keyframe render with no problem) ... Here's what I found:

Python don't have a great support for recursion because of it's lack of TRE (Tail Recursion Elimination).

This means that each call to your recursive function will create a function call stack and because there is a limit of stack depth (by default is 1000) that you can check out by sys.getrecursionlimit (of course you can change it using sys.setrecursionlimit but it's not recommended) your program will end up by crashing when it hits this limit.

As other answer has already give you a much nicer way for how to solve this in your case (which is to replace recursion by simple loop) there is another solution if you still want to use recursion which is to use one of the many recipes of implementing TRE in python like this one.

N.B: My answer is meant to give you more insight on why you get the error, and I'm not advising you to use the TRE as i already explained because in your case a loop will be much better and easy to read.