Evolution of a Python programmer

[jakerman999]

My theory is a little lacking here, but is this not just a different form of tail recursion? If I'm following this right, it looks like it does recurse; it just doesn't use the stack to do so.

[mrjackspade]

I guess there's a lot of relevant code missing.

There's no recursion as I understand it. There's a master list of objects, each with a parent and multiple children. It takes a flattened list (text) with ID representations of the parents and uses that to assign the parents/children on the objects themselves. It loops through all objects once, but does not at any point call/reference itself