PYTHON PROGRAMMING

Recursion in Python Demystified

The article shows simple examples of flat and nested recursion patterns in Python.

Marcin Kozak
Towards Data Science
15 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Simply put, a recursive function is a function that calls itself.

This may sound simple, but if you try to learn more, you’re likely to find explanations of recursion that are not that…

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