# test hitting the function recursion limit within a thread # # MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd import _thread def foo(): foo() def thread_entry(): try: foo() except RuntimeError: print("RuntimeError") global finished finished = True finished = False _thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, ()) # busy wait for thread to finish while not finished: pass print("done")