Does Python optimize tail recursion?

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00:00 Question
00:49 Accepted answer (Score 299)
01:30 Answer 2 (Score 214)
07:43 Answer 3 (Score 24)
08:22 Answer 4 (Score 9)
08:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1359...

Accepted answer links:
[Guido van Rossum]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_...
[Tail Recursion Elimination]: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com.au/2009/...
[Final Words on Tail Calls]: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com.au/2009/...

Answer 2 links:
https://github.com/baruchel/tco
[Y combinator]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-poin...
[https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=fr#!...]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?h

Answer 3 links:
http://neopythonic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/0...

Answer 4 links:
[CPython]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython
[Guido van Rossum's]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_...

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