Hitting Maximum Recursion Depth Using Pickle / cPickle
The background: I’m building a trie to represent a dictionary, using a minimal construction algorithm. The input list is 4.3M utf-8 strings, sorted lexicographically. The resulting graph is acyclic and has a maximum depth of 638 nodes. The first line of my script sets the recursion limit to 1100 via sys.setrecursionlimit().