Runtimeerror: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a python object

Question

Problem :

I am trying to write my first program in Vpython and I have to make the simulation of mixing two gases. First I had the problem with borders, but now when my balls(that represents a gas particles) stay within a border there is the sth different wrong. After the few seconds I get the error, which is shown as below

return MovingTheBall(listOfBalls,(position[0]+choice([-1,0,1]),position[1]+choice([-1,0,1]),0),numCell,1)File "gaz.txt", line 138, in MovingTheBall
return MovingTheBall(listOfBalls,(position[0]+choice([-1,0,1]),position[1]+choice([-1,0,1]),0),numCell,1)File "gaz.txt", line 138, in MovingTheBall
return MovingTheBall(listOfBalls,(position[0]+choice([-1,0,1]),position[1]+choice([-1,0,1]),0),numCell,1) File "gaz.txt", line 130, in MovingTheBall
if positionTmp==listOfBalls[i].pos:
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Can somebody think of the way to simplify the function?

I run my function it while loop:

while 1:
rate(20)
for j in range(0,len(self.listOfBalls)):
self.listOfBalls[j].pos=poruszanie(self.listOfBalls,self.listOfBalls[j].pos,self.numCell,0)

 

Answer 1

It occurs because the call to poruszanie results in to another call to poruszanie, incrementing a recursion depth by 1. A second call results in another call to a same function. That keeps happening over and over again, each time incrementing a recursion depth.

Now, a usable resources of the program are limited. Each function call takes the certain amount of space on a top of what is called a stack. If a maximum stack height is reached, you get the stack overflow error.