It's actually not likely at ALL. Guido van Rossum said[0] on multiple occasions that it's un-pythonic and it won't happen. Edit: I didn't see shakna's comment.

It's actually not likely at ALL. Guido van Rossum said[0] on multiple occasions that it's un-pythonic and it won't happen. Edit: I didn't see shakna's comment. [0] http://neopythonic.blogspot.de/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1 http://neopythonic.blogspot.de/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimin...