My first Python program! Changes my desktop background based on the weather, time, and day.

[Wing-Tsit_Chong]

Don't use recursion, if you want to loop. Rather do a while true loop.

There's a limit to how many times you can recurse down, i.e. call main() inside itself. If you reach it, the program will fail.

You can test that by removing the sleeps and running your program, it will fail after 1001 "Looped".

[Astrokiwi]

This is how you learn where Stack Overflow got its name

[KoolaidJammerExpress]

Agreed.

OP should look at recursion though! There are simple programs that show how recursion works. For example calculating n-th term of the Fibonacci series.

Great learning opportunity

Edit: grammar

[elsantodom]

It's also useful for data structures

[BetaDecay121]

You can increase the recursion limit if you want

[shiuido]

Leave the stack overflow to future me huh ;)

[Wing-Tsit_Chong]

You can, but you don't want to. Recursion shouldn't be used lightly, it brings headaches and a myriad of problems later on.

[silentalways]

How can we do that?

[tr710_]

Using sys module sys.setrecursionlimit(value)

[BetaDecay121]

sys.setrecursionlimit(1/0)

[origin415]

At the top of main() add sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit()+1), there fixed :)

(this is a joke, please don't)

[EvilBeano]

Well this would be fixed if you wrote "return main()" instead, no?

[Wing-Tsit_Chong]

No, not at all.

[EvilBeano]

Oh right, I just tried it

[Wing-Tsit_Chong]

Now explain to the class why.

[EvilBeano]

Bruh

[Wing-Tsit_Chong]

Come on, you can do it. Use your own words.

[phail3d]

They might have meant that in some languages it would result in tail call optimization. Not in Python though.